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Quotes by Charles Olson

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We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?
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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.
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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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We all want what’s been suddenly disallowed.
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I don’t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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I’m one of the cliches that has grown up.
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I’m trying to climb up both walls at once.
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You can do anything, literally, right? That’s one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
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I hope you’re representing the devil’s advocate.
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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.
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