Awe Quote by Charles Olson

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“what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below”

Charles Olson

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

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

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“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

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“Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet…

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