"Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to it's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in da..."
- Frank O'Hara
"… and I’ll be happy here and happy there, fullof tea and tears"
"… my words are lovewhich willfully parades inits room, refusing to move."
"I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath."
"Oh say can you see Alma. The darlingof Them. All her friends were artists.They alone have memories. They alonelove flowers. They alone give partiesand die. Poor Alma. They alone.She died,and it was as..."
"willow trees, willow trees they remind me of DesdemonaI'm so damned literaryand at the same time the waters rushing past remindme of nothing"
"You are the sick prince of my cerise innovations and in your drowning caresses I walk the sea"
"I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life"