Frank O'Hara

“Grace to be born and live as variously as possible.”

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

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

“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”

“The only thing to do is to hug one's friends and do one's work.”

“I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.”

“I am not a painter, I am a poet. Why? I think I would have been a painter, but I am not.”

“Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.”

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”

“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous.”

“You just go on your nerve.”

“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail.”

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

“I am waiting for my case to come up / and I am waiting / for a rebirth of wonder.”

“Oh god, it’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs.”

“I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up”

“To be famous is to be stuck in a library.”

“My heart is in my / mind. I think this is why I am an artist.”