Status Updates From Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, ...

"Why is it bad if you think you could do that, too?" I said. "Why isn't it liberating, like punk rock? And if you could so easily make something moving out of paint, why don't you?"

"O'Hara's friend Helen Frankenthaler said she had no plan when she went to paint: "There is no 'always.' No formula. There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.""

"Anyhow, some person simpatico to me will arise,
For time is boundless and the earth is wide."

“if you tell a story in an honest enough way, you can free yourself from shame.”

"This was supposed to be a world where the witty banter never turned cruel, affairs ended in no hurt feelings, and intoxication left no hangover."

"He not only doesn't see the forest for the trees; he's down on the ground with a magnifying glass."

"...she stood out against the crowd of poets and painters who wept like children and drank like sailors."