Charles Olson

Quotes by Charles Olson

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Poet · American · 1910–1970

American poet (1910–1970)

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“A poem is a line between any two points in creation.”

“A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.”

“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl a bit like Crab Nebula do for now.”

“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.”

“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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“A poem is a line between any two points in creation.”
— Charles Olson
creation nature poetry

“As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'c...”
— Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems
anger conservation luck myth

“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.”
— Charles Olson
Life People Help

“If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects s...”
— Charles Olson
listening nature noumenal object

“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl a bit like Crab Nebula do for now.”
— Charles Olson
appetite charles-olson crab-nebula for-now

“A poem is a ‘line’ between any two points in creation.”
— Charles Olson
creation nature poetry

“O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.”
— Charles Olson
appetite charles-olson crab-nebula for-now