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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: December 27, 1910 Date of Death: January 10, 1970 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Charles Olson Related Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Walt Whitman Bryant H. McGill Carl Sandburg James Russell Lowell T. S. Eliot |
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 couldn't write a canto if I sat down and deliberately tried. My interest is not in cantos. It's in another condition of a song. 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 Canadian voice is still too rustic. 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 When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? Charles Olson You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. Charles Olson You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. Charles Olson You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. Charles Olson |
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