Body Quote by Charles Olson

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

— Charles Olson

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

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

— Charles Olson

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

— Charles Olson

“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

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

— Charles Olson

I was playing catch with the European audience.

— Charles Olson

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

— Charles Olson

“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

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

bees dig the plum blossoms

— Charles Olson

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

— Charles Olson