List of Charles Olson Quotes

The Heroes Of The Present Will Retreat To The Imitation They Are Anyhow.

Dead, Hung Up Indoors, The Kingfisher Will Not Indicate A Favoring Wind, Or Avert The Thunderbolt.

And All Now Is War Where So Lately There Was Peace, And The Sweet Brotherhood, The Use Of Tilled Fields.

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.

You Can Do Anything, Really. And That, L Think, Is One Of The Exciting Possibilities Of The Present, L Swear, Is The Possibility That The Goddamn Thing Can Be Modaled Throughout.

One Loves Only Form, And Form Only Comes Into Existence When The Thing Is Born.

The Canadian Voice Is Still Too Rustic.

I Was Playing Catch With The European Audience.

O.k. I'm Running Out Of Appetite. Let This Swirl- A Bit Like Crab Nebula- Do For Now.

Is It Not The Play Of The Mind We Are After? Is It Not That That Shows A Mind Is There At All?

Fact Is Based Upon Vulgar Matter.

I Don't Live For Poetry. I Live Far More Than Anybody Else Does.