Atlantis will rise again.
Charles Olson

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
Charles Olson

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
Charles Olson

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
Charles Olson

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
Charles Olson

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
Charles Olson

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
Charles Olson

I was playing catch with the European audience.
Charles Olson


I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Charles Olson

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

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
Charles Olson

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
Charles Olson

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
Charles Olson

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
Charles Olson

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.
Charles Olson

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
Charles Olson

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
Charles Olson