"of rhythm is image / of image is……" — Charles Olson
"of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct"
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36 Quotes by Charles Olson
Charles Olson has 36 quotes on this site.
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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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More Construct Quotes
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one of 294 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
— Bill Bryson
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you…
— Luigi Pirandello
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To…
— Pete Wilson
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
— Epictetus
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest,…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of…
— Cesar Chavez
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to…
— Ronald Reagan
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model…
— John von Neumann
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