Charles Olson

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

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.