I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.
- Charles Olson
I Am Happy, Here, Some, Kitchen
There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
- Charles Olson
Grace, Still, Which, Yours
Atlantis will rise again.
- Charles Olson
Will, Again, Rise
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
- Charles Olson
Heroes, Will, Retreat, Imitation
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
- Charles Olson
Poetry, My Life, Been, All My Life
I was playing catch with the European audience.
- Charles Olson
Audience, Playing, European, Catch
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
- Charles Olson
Reason, Some, Defer, Poets
This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.
- Charles Olson
Country, Unconscious, Been, Awake
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
- Charles Olson
Hope, Devil, Advocate, Representing
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.
- Charles Olson
Small, Drop, Which, Faucet
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
- Charles Olson
Mean, Sound, Like, Homer
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
- Charles Olson
Me, Sound, Realized, Poem
We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
- Charles Olson
Want, Been, Suddenly
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
- Charles Olson
Sorry, Head, I Was Born, Towel
I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.
- Charles Olson
Climb, Trying, Once, Walls
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
- Charles Olson
More, Anybody, Far, Anybody Else
You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.
- Charles Olson
Some, Everybody, Extent, False
When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?
- Charles Olson
Government, Everybody, Cease, Nuisance
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
- Charles Olson
Sleep, Forgive, Wake, Wake Up
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
- Charles Olson
Fact, Matter, Based, Vulgar
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
- Charles Olson
Right, Exciting, Literally, Possibilities
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