Charles Olson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Charles Olson:

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
~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 don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
~Charles Olson


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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
~Charles Olson


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Atlantis will rise again.
~Charles Olson


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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
~Charles Olson


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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#64843c14

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
~Charles Olson


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I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#aed8375e

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#ffb1c600

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
~Charles Olson


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I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#0f3428a5

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#9b976ea6

I was playing catch with the European audience.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#01e261c4

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#ff23e13f

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#e1ccd930

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#30d34c0b

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#47e92209

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#f12202ba

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#24c01cd7

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#aef09156

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
~Charles Olson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#0b58591e

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/charles-olson-quotes/#48d0327c

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