All Charles Olson Quotes
- I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Admire
- I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Anybody
- I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Cliche
- I was playing catch with the European audience. Audience
- I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. Born
- Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice? All
- You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble All
- ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION Directly
- There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of. All
- An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. American
- O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now. Appetite
- I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. Advocate
- 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… Blessing
- Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. Forgive
- I'm trying to climb up both walls at once. Both
- You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. Anything Literally
- All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing. All
- 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… America
- Atlantis will rise again. Atlantis
- Fact is based upon vulgar matter. Based