Author: Charles Olson

Quotes

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

- Charles Olson

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

- 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.

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

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

- Charles Olson

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

- Charles Olson

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

- Charles Olson

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