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Charles Olson
Age: 59 †
Born: 1910
Born: December 27
Died: 1970
Died: January 10
Literary Critic
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University Teacher
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Charles John Olson
Charles J. Olson
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More quotes by Charles Olson
what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere
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Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson
by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.
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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
Charles Olson
Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
Charles Olson
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
Charles Olson
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
Charles Olson
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
Charles Olson
Atlantis will rise again.
Charles Olson
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
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Charles Olson
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
Charles Olson
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
Charles Olson
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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bees dig the plum blossoms
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