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Charles Olson

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Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.


— Charles Olson


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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.


— Charles Olson


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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.


— Charles Olson


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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.


— Charles Olson


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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.


— Charles Olson


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I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.


— Charles Olson


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I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.


— Charles Olson


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


— Charles Olson


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I was playing catch with the European audience.


— Charles Olson


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


— Charles Olson


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but was repelled by Pound's increasingly fascist tendencies. George F. Olson is listed as an influence on artists including Carolee Schneemann and James Tenney.

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American modernist 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. ". Consequently many postmodern groups such as the poets of the language school include Olson as a primary and precedent figure.

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