"A poem is energy transferred from where the……" — Charles Olson
"A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader."
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36 Quotes by Charles Olson
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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 don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
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Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble
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ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
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There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be…
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An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
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