I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Charles Olson More Quotes by Charles Olson More Quotes From Charles Olson I have had to learn the simplest things Charles Olson difficultylastsmade Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from. Charles Olson dirtclearroots What does not change is the will to change Charles Olson changedoe Knowledge is the harvest of attention Charles Olson harvestattention An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. Charles Olson spatialcomplexesgeometry 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 blessingsnowmorning All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing. Charles Olson matter There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe. Charles Olson deargraceeurope Atlantis will rise again. Charles Olson atlantisfuture There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of. Charles Olson hierarchyinfiniteeye I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. Charles Olson advocatingdevils-advocatedevil 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. Charles Olson poetenergyway I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. Charles Olson imitationsoundmean The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. Charles Olson poetrysoundfirsts O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now. Charles Olson swirlsnebularunning I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Charles Olson cliche of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct Charles Olson constructsrhythmknowing love is form, and cannot be without Charles Olson substanceimportantlove The flowers are ravined Charles Olson flowerrainwind by night only crazy things Charles Olson crazymoonnight
