Frank O'Hara Quotes

I look up. "You have sardines in it." "Yes, it needed something there." "Oh."
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 7-10). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. (24) (3)
It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet It's twelve poems, I call it oranges.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. (24) (3)
And one has eaten and one walks, past the magazines with nudes and the posters for bullfight and the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, which they'll soon tear down.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 40-44). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. (12) (4)
A glass of papaya juice and back to work. My heart is in my pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 47-49). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. (10) (4)
down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A Step Away from Them (l. 3-8). . . Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. (0) (0)
Go back to sleep now Frank, and I may leave a tiny poem in that brain of yours as my farewell.'
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 73-75). . . Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (3) (0)
If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 42-44). . . Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (3) (0)
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 64-67). . . Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (1) (0)
'No, go I must, they're calling me.' 'Who are they?' Rising he said "Some day you'll know. They're calling to you too.' Darkly he rose, and then I slept.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 77-82). . . Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (1) (0)
And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966), U.S. poet. A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 45-46). . . Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The. Helen Vendler, ed. (1985) The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. (0) (0)