Mohammed Patel > Mohammed's Quotes

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“ And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space. ”
― Frank O'Hara

“Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible”
― Frank O'Hara

“After the first glass of vodka
you can accept just about anything
of life even your own mysteriousness
you think it is nice that a box
of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden
for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“I've got to get out of here. I choose a piece of shawl and my dirtiest suntans. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“I wouldn’t want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days!”
― Frank O'Hara, The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof