Mind Quote by Charles Olson

“Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?”

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…

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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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