Avert Quote by Charles Olson

“Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.”

Charles Olson

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“this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible”

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There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.

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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

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by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.

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“Objectivism is the getting rid of the lyrical interference of the individual as ego, of the “subject” and his soul, that peculiar presumption by which western man has interposed himself between what he is as a creature of nature (with certain instructions to carry out) and those other creations of nature which we may, with no derogation, call objects. For…

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

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I was playing catch with the European audience.

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All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

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“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able…

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This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of…

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bees dig the plum blossoms

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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze…

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Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight…

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The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods…

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What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing…

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He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils,…

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or…

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Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

Jeremy Rifkin

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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.

Alvin Toffler

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We live in a very special time right now. At no other time in history has there been such mass disillusionment in terms of reliance on governing functions. Most people don’t want to come to terms with that. It’s been proven over and over again that the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes, but most people don’t like to look at…

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Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western…

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