Meditations in an Emergency
Frank O'Hara
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.”
“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.”
“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”
“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?”
“The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.”
“I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.”
“I embraced a cloud, but when I soared it rained.”
“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
“If I am ever to find these trees meaningful I must have you by the hand. As it is, they stretch dusty fingers into an obscure sky, and the snow looks up like a face dirtied with tears. Should I cry out and see what happens? There could only be a stranger wandering in this landscape, cold, unfortunate, himself frozen fast in wintry eyes.”
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Book Keywords:
crisis, love, decisions, hope, life, poems, disappointment, poetry, heart
