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Charles Olson [1910-1970] American
Rank: 104
Poet


Charles Olson was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

Poetry, Morning

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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
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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. Morning
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I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. Poetry
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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
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I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
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You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
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We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
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This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
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I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Poetry
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I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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Atlantis will rise again.
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.
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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
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