"Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!"
- Frank O'Hara
"...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..."
"Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads ..."
"You just go on your nerve."
"I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up"
"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!"
" Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space. "
"you know we've all sinned a lot against scienceso we really ought to be as available as an appleon a boughpleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenizationoh oh god how I'd love to dream let al..."
"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 th..."
"Stars are out and there is seaenough beneath the glistening earthto bear me toward the futurewhich is not so dark. I see."