Facts about Charles Olson
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Charles Olson was a famous Poet from USA, who lived between December 27, 1910 and January 10, 1970.
Our collection contains 25 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topic Poetry.
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Famous quotes by Charles Olson (25)
"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"
"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief"
"I hope you're representing the devil's advocate"
"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up"
"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present"
"I'm one of the cliches that has grown up"
"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does"
"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen"
"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble"
"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false"
"Atlantis will rise again"
"When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?"
"We all want what's been suddenly disallowed"
"There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe"
"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being"
"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer"
"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago"
"I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire"
"We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?"
"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow"
"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once"
"I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head"
"I was playing catch with the European audience"
"Fact is based upon vulgar matter"
"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble"
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