Charles Olson Quotes
- I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
- The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
- The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
- There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
- We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
- You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
- When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
- The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
- Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
- of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct
- Knowledge is the harvest of attention
- Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
- A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all…
- I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
- I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
- This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.