Charles Olson Quotes
"The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Being, First, Sound)
"When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?"
- Charles Olson
(Related: Government, Being, Will)
"We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?"
- Charles Olson
"We all want what's been suddenly disallowed."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Want)
"This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Time, Blessings, Snow, Water)
"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Truth)
"This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Belief, Country, Unconscious)
"There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Life, Europe, Grace)
"The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Heroes, Imitation, Present, Will)
"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Possibilities, Present, Right)
"I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head."
- Charles Olson
"I'm one of the cliches that has grown up."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Cliches)
"I was playing catch with the European audience."
- Charles Olson
"I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Sound)
"I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Years)
"I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Poetry)
"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Friends, Kitchen)
"Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Sleep)
"Fact is based upon vulgar matter."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Fact)
"Atlantis will rise again."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Will)
"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Life, People, Help, Poems, Trouble, Trying)
"I hope you're representing the devil's advocate."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Hope, Devil)
"I'm trying to climb up both walls at once."
- Charles Olson
(Related: Trying)