Interesting Quote by Charles Olson

“You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.”

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

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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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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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