Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!

Frank O'Hara's Popular Quotes

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.

- Frank O'Hara

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

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And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

- Frank O'Hara

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible q…

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O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

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the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

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Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

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oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

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I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

- Frank O'Hara