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Charles Olson - From the Aging category:
I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Audience category:
I was playing catch with the European audience. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Critics category:
The Canadian voice is still too rustic. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Desire category:
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Envy category:
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Frustration category:
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Future category:
Atlantis will rise again. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Generosity category:
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Grace category:
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Gratitude category:
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)
Charles Olson - From the Imitation category:
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is the harvest of attention. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Life category:
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Movement category:
We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice? (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Poetry category:
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Politics category:
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Possibilities category:
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Questions category:
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)
Charles Olson - From the Revelation category:
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)
Charles Olson - From the Rhythm category:
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Sleep category:
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Space category:
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)
Charles Olson - From the Timeliness category:
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Truth category:
It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false. (Charles Olson)
Charles Olson - From the Words category:
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. (Charles Olson)
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