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Inspirational Quotes by Charles Olson
- I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
- I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
- I was playing catch with the European audience.
- Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?
- ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
- An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
- I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
- You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
- All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.
- Atlantis will rise again.
- Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento