"I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love."
- Frank O'Hara
"When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leafto turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.There's nothing so spiritual about being happybut you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last."
"I embraced a cloud,but when I soaredit rained."
"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..."
"My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at som..."
"I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist."
"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac"
"I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile."
"My HeartI'm not going to cry all the timenor shall I laugh all the time,I don't prefer one "strain" to another.I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie,not just a sleeper, but also the big,overproduced f..."
"That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg."