"I'm trying to climb up both walls at…" — Charles Olson
"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."
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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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