Frank O'Hara: Doing

Frank O'Hara was American poet, art critic and writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Mayakovsky, st. 4, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957).

“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 totallylife. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is…”

“And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space.”

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 64-67) (1958).