Charles Olson Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charles Olson
Charles Olson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The body
whips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir
In the roar of spring,
transmutations.
whips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir
In the roar of spring,
transmutations.
The flowers are ravined
by bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.
by bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything.
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.
What pudor pejorocracy affronts
how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below
how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.
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.
And all now is war
where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields.
where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields.
What can we do
when even the public conveyances
sing?
how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
how get out of anywhere
when even the public conveyances
sing?
how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
how get out of anywhere
There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.