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 to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.
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.
poetry death happiness spiritual day sun die
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 totally life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is..
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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.
That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.
I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up
poetry fame excellence fashion
Oh! Kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!
.. 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..
You just go on your nerve.
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?
poetry writing drinking vodka
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 something after it has given me up.
trust poetry
I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.
men
Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.
people society
And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.
people
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