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Frank O'Hara Quotes

1926–1966 United States

Francis Russell O'Hara (June 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New York School of poetry. O'Hara's association with the Museum of Modern Art and painters like Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and others became a source of inspiration for his highly original poetry.

United States
20th-century poets
Critics
Poets

Also known as: O'Hara, Frank

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

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.

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.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank O'Hara (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.