Complexes Quote by Charles Olson Download Open image “An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.” — Charles Olson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexes Geometry Inspirational Nature Occasions Spatial
An American is a guy, a rich guy with a family, a decent guy with a family with as many kids as he likes,… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation,… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of purpose, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace or creed or line of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I wonder what it means when Americans say I'm an American. In Britain the culture is basically the same from one end of the… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“An American is a man who is greater in his soul than in his class, creed, political party, or the section in which he… — David Barton Copy Share Image
“The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“Objectivism is the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the “subject” and his soul, that peculiar presumption by… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world. — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society. — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image