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Charles Olson Quotes

American poet and educator (d. 1970), Birth: 27-12-1910 Charles Olson Quotes
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Atlantis will rise again.
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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson

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I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
Charles Olson

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Knowledge is the harvest of attention
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Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
Charles Olson

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What does not change is the will to change
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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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Quote Topics by Charles Olson: Born Imitation Doe Desire Sound Night Trying Matter Poet Poetry Wind Death Law Advocating Rustic Dirt Nice Perception Vulgar Infinite Grace Voice Clear Energy Politics Substance Hierarchy Form Geometry Important
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An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
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of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
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All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.
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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.
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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
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A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.
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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
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20.
bees dig the plum blossoms
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I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
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The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
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25.
You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.
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I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.
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There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.
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Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?
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The flowers are ravined by bees, the fruit blossoms are thrown to the ground, the wind the rain forces everything.
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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below
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by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.
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ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
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what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Charles Olson

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I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
Charles Olson

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Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
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My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble
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love is form, and cannot be without important substance
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
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Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
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And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.
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one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.
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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson