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Frank O'Hara
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“I went back to work and wrote a poem for this person. While I was writing it I was realizing that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem, and so Personism was born. It's a very exciting movement which will undoubtedly have lots of adherents. It puts the poem squarely between the poet and the person, Lucky Pierre style, and the poem is correspondingly gratified. The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages.”
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Personism: A Manifesto, from The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1972).
“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 (1926–1966) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mayakovsky, st. 4, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957).
“And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.”
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island (l. 64-67) (1958).
“The beauty of America, neither cool jazz nor devoured Egyptian heroes, lies in lives in the darkness I inhabit in the midst of sterile millions.”
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets (l. 34-36) (1960).
“It is even in prose, I am a real poet. My poem is finished and I haven't mentioned orange yet It's twelve poems, I call it oranges.”
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28) (1976).