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Charles Olson quotes

American Poet December 27, 1910 – January 10, 1970

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Charles Olson quote: "You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help..."
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe."
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."
I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. 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
Wholly absorbed into my own conduits to an inner nature or subterranean lake the depths or bounds of which I more and more explore and know more of, in that sense that other than that all else closes out and I tend further to fall into the Beloved Lake and I am blinder from spending time as insistently in and on this personal preserve from which what I do do emerges more well-known than other ways and other outside places which don’t give as much and distract me from keeping my attentions... Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?"
We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice? Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "I hope you're representing the devil's advocate."
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head."
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the..."
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "The original in man is that which articulates him from the..."
The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "Knowledge is the harvest of attention"
Knowledge is the harvest of attention Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swir? a bit like..."
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swir? a bit like Crab Nebul? do for now. Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that..."
Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all? Charles Olson
Charles Olson quote: "I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Charles Olson

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