All Charles Olson Quotes
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
Charles Olson
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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
Charles Olson
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson
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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
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
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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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