Quotes by Charles Olson
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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
I was playing catch with the European audience.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
My life ...
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
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