"Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern."

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

Frank O'Hara

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“We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men in the wilderness, seems to me to be almost an archetypal image of human beings on their own, human beings making their own way, guiding themselves by the stars they can see - rather than by faith or prayer or invisible forces.”
“The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.”
“When one sleeps on the floor one need not worry about falling out of bed.”
“I mean Iâ€™m 16 and 17 years wiser now. So if I could do it when I was 18 with a guy, I can certainly do it at 33 with a lady.”
“Let's have the type of night where it's 5 a.m. and one of us has definitely punched someone who's been on a Disney Channel show.”
“And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.”
“Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.”
“BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.”

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