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1. "I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer." ~ Charles Olson
2. "I was playing catch with the European audience." ~ Charles Olson
3. "I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head." ~ Charles Olson
4. "The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being." ~ Charles Olson
5. "We all want what's been suddenly disallowed." ~ Charles Olson
6. "We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?" ~ Charles Olson
7. "When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?" ~ Charles Olson
8. "You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false." ~ Charles Olson
9. "You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble." ~ Charles Olson
10. "Atlantis will rise again." ~ Charles Olson
11. "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 Olson
12. "the soul is / proprioceptive" ~ Charles Olson
13. "Wholly absorbed into my own conduits toan inner nature or subterranean lakethe depths or bounds of which I more and moreexplore and know moreof, in that sense that other than that all elsecloses out and I tend further to fall intothe Beloved Lake and I am blinder fromspending time as insistently in and onthis personal preserve from whichwhat I do do emerges more well-known thanother ways and other outside places whichdon't give as much and distract me fromkeeping my attentions as clearCharles Olson, "Additions", March 1968—2" ~ Charles Olson
14. "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
15. "of rhythm is image/ of image is knowing/ of knowing there is/ a construct" ~ Charles Olson
16. "O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now." ~ Charles Olson
17. "Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up." ~ Charles Olson
18. "Fact is based upon vulgar matter." ~ Charles Olson
19. "I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen." ~ Charles Olson
20. "I hope you're representing the devil's advocate." ~ Charles Olson
21. "I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire." ~ Charles Olson
22. "I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does." ~ Charles Olson
23. "I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago." ~ Charles Olson
24. "I'm one of the cliches that has grown up." ~ Charles Olson
25. "I'm trying to climb up both walls at once." ~ Charles Olson
26. "The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow." ~ Charles Olson
27. "There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe." ~ Charles Olson
28. "This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief." ~ Charles Olson

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