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All Quotes by author - Charles Olson

" Atlantis will rise again. "

" Fact is based upon vulgar matter. "

" Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up. "

" I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen. "

" I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. "

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

" I hope you're representing the devil's advocate. "

" I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. "

" I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. "

" I'm trying to climb up both walls at once. "

" I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago. "

" I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer. "

" I was playing catch with the European audience. "

" The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. "

" The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. "

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

" This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief. "

" 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. "

" We all want what's been suddenly disallowed. "

" We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice? "

" When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? "

" You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. "

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

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

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