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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](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/you-don-t-help-people-in-your-poems-i-ve-been-trying-to-help-people/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

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## More by Charles Olson

> [“this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/this-is-the-abstract-this-is-the-cold-doing-this-is-the-almost/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/there-are-no-hierarchies-no-infinite-no-such-many-as-mass-there-are/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/forgive-me-if-i-sleep-until-i-wake-up/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/by-night-only-crazy-things-like-the-full-moon-and-the-whippoorwill/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [“Objectivism is the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the “subject” and his soul, that peculiar presumption by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/objectivism-is-the-getting-rid-of-the-lyrical-interference-of-the/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poets-who-for-some-reason-i-both/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [I was playing catch with the European audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/i-was-playing-catch-with-the-european-audience/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/all-that-matters-is-that-the-thing-be-the-thing-of-the-thing/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/if-he-stays-inside-himself-if-he-is-contained-within-his-nature-as-he/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/this-morning-of-the-small-snow-i-count-the-blessings-the-leak-in-the/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [bees dig the plum blossoms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/bees-dig-the-plum-blossoms/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/i-m-one-of-the-cliches-that-has-grown-up/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/the-body-whips-the-soul-in-its-great-desire-it-demands-the-elixir-in/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [“the soul is / proprioceptive”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/the-soul-is-proprioceptive/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

> [You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/you-can-do-anything-really-and-that-l-think-is-one-of-the-exciting/)

[Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/)

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