Charles Olson quotes
-
“of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.124, Univ of California Press
-
“I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press
-
“one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.”
-- Charles Olson -
“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press
-
“There are no hierarchies, no infinite, no such many as mass, there are only/ eyes in all heads,/ to be looked out of.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.4, New Directions Publishing
-
“ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION”
-- Charles Olson -
“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”
-
“I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.”
-- 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 -
“When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”
#Interesting Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes #Truth Is Quotes
-
“We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.”
-- Charles Olson -
“There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.”
-- Charles Olson -
“I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.”
-- Charles Olson -
“You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.”
-- Charles Olson -
“Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.”
-- Charles OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.106, Univ of California Press
-
“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 OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
-
-
“I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.”
-- Charles Olson -
“I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.”
-- Charles Olson -
“I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.”
-- Charles Olson -
“I was playing catch with the European audience.”
-- Charles Olson -
-
“I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.”
-- Charles Olson -
“Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?”
-- Charles Olson -
“I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.”
-- 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 OlsonSource : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.231, New Directions Publishing
-
-
“I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.”
-- Charles Olson
You may also like:
-
Alfred North Whitehead
Mathematician -
Allen Ginsberg
Poet -
Amiri Baraka
Writer -
Denise Levertov
Poet -
Edward Dorn
Poet -
Ezra Pound
Poet -
Gary Snyder
Poet -
George Oppen
Poet -
Gertrude Stein
Writer -
Henry Corbin
Philosopher -
Jack Spicer
Poet -
John Ashbery
Poet -
John Wieners
Poet -
Louis Zukofsky
Poet -
Michael McClure
Poet -
Robert Creeley
Poet -
Stan Brakhage
Filmmaker -
Susan Howe
Poet -
Frank O'Hara
Writer