Frank O'Hara

“I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist.”

“Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.”

“I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!”

“I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.”

“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!”

“Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see.”

“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”