"Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!"

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Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.15, Univ of California Press

Frank O'Hara

#Beautiful Quotes #Chocolate Quotes #Aspirin Quotes

“Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that youâ€™d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish.”
“We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.”
“I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.”
“Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.”
“I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.”
“Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”
“Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.”
“I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.”

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