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A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.
— Charles Olson
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
The bodywhips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir
In the roar of spring,
transmutations. — Charles Olson
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
— Charles Olson
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
— Charles Olson
Not one death but many,not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is
the law — Charles Olson
The flowers are ravinedby bees, the fruit blossoms
are thrown to the ground, the wind
the rain forces everything. — Charles Olson
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.
— Charles Olson
I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
— Charles Olson
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
I was playing catch with the European audience.
— Charles Olson
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
— Charles Olson
What pudor pejorocracy affrontshow awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot
what breeds where dirtiness is law
what crawls
below — Charles Olson
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
— Charles Olson
Love is form, and cannot be withoutimportant substance — Charles Olson
I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
— 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
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
— Charles Olson
The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.
— Charles Olson
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
— Charles Olson
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
— Charles Olson
All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.
— Charles Olson
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
— Charles Olson
Beesdig the plum blossoms — Charles Olson
the soul is / proprioceptive
— Charles Olson
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
— Charles Olson
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
— 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
And all now is warwhere so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields. — Charles Olson
We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
— Charles Olson
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
— Charles Olson
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
— Charles Olson
The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
— Charles Olson
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
— Charles Olson
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl - a bit like Crab Nebula - do for now.
— Charles Olson
What can we dowhen even the public conveyances
sing?
how can we go anywhere,
even cross-town
how get out of anywhere — Charles Olson
Atlantis will rise again.
— Charles Olson
There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.
— Charles Olson
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisherwill not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt. — Charles Olson
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
— Charles Olson
What does not change is the will to change
— Charles Olson
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
— Charles Olson