Frank O'Hara Quotes

• Puede que la poesía me haga tangibles los acontecimientos nebulosos de la vida y me devuelva sus detalles; o, a la inversa, que la poesía haga aflorar la cualidad intangible de incidentes demasiado concretos y circunstanciales. O cada una en ocasiones concretas, o ambas cosas a la vez.

  Frank O'Hara

  Intangible Quality, Events, Details

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press

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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

  Frank O'Hara

  Coffee, Love You, Bed

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.371, Univ of California Press

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• Soy el menos difícil de los hombres. Todo lo que quiero es amor sin límites.

  Frank O'Hara

  Inspiring, Men, Want

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.197, Univ of California Press

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

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Interesting, Personality

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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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

  Beautiful, Ideas, Wish

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• O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

  Frank O'Hara

  Piano, Enormous

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.216, Univ of California Press

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• Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

  Frank O'Hara

  Grace, Born

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.256, Univ of California Press

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• I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

  Frank O'Hara

  Nubes

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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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

  Stars, Sky, Space

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.307, Univ of California Press

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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

  Frank O'Hara

  Truth, Fighting, Black And White

  Frank O'Hara (1969). “Odes”

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• It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Plot, Finals

  Frank O'Hara (2005). “In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems”, p.65, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.

  Frank O'Hara

  Stars, Eye, His Eyes

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Chocolate, Aspirin

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.15, Univ of California Press

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• When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.

  Frank O'Hara

  Spiritual, Missing, Want

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.244, Univ of California Press

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• I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

  Frank O'Hara

  Thinking, Poetry, Poet

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press

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• The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

  Frank O'Hara

  Dos, Literatura, Mayo

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• Yo no... como el ritmo, la asonancia, todas esas cosas. Te dejas llevar por tus nervios. Si alguien te persigue por la calle con un cuchillo simplemente corres, no te das la vuelta y gritas, '¡Déjalo! Fui una estrella del atletismo en Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• I am always tying up
  and then deciding to depart.

  Frank O'Hara

  Frank O'Hara (1967). “Meditations in an Emergency”, p.1, Grove Press

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• Ni siquiera puedo disfrutar de una brizna de hierba si no sé que hay un metro a mano, o una tienda de discos o alguna otra señal de que la gente no se arrepiente totalmente de la vida. Es más importante confirmar lo menos sincero. Las nubes ya reciben suficiente atención.

  Frank O'Hara

  Regret, Clouds, People

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• You just go on your nerve.

  Frank O'Hara

  Nerves, Goes On

  "He does this, he does that" by Charles Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2003.

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• life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Lying, Different

  Frank O'Hara (2005). “In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems”, p.81, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I call
  to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

  Frank O'Hara

  Inspirational, Land, Spirit

  Frank O'Hara (1969). “Odes”

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• Me pregunto si el curso del narcisismo a través de los tiempos habría sido diferente si Narciso se hubiera asomado primero a un pozo negro. Probablemente lo hizo.

  Frank O'Hara

  Age, Different, Firsts

  Frank O'Hara (1977). “Early writing”, Bookpeople

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• A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

  Frank O'Hara

  Men, Weapons, Causes

  "The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara".

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• There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

  Frank O'Hara

  Clouds, Rift, Frowning

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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