Quotes From "The Collected Poems Of Frank Ohara" By Frank OHara

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Swedenfor they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? . Frank OHara

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! Frank OHara

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

You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea Frank OHara