Quotes About Frank O'Hara

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

ForJennyMcPhee I remember the first time I met Frank O'Hara. He was walking down Second Avenue. It was a cool early Spring evening but he was wearing only a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. And blue jeans. And moccasins. I remember that he seemed very sissy to me. Very theatrical. Decadent. I remember that I liked him instantly. -Joe Brainard, I Remember

Love is not gentle, like the dust of a room; love is a thing that happens in a room, and becomes dust.

Welcome me, if you will, as the ambassador of a hatred who knows its cause and does not envy you your whim of ending him.

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.