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Charles Olson

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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.


— Charles Olson


#grown #i #up

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.


— Charles Olson


#head #i #i was born #sorry #towel

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.


— Charles Olson


#climb #i #once #trying #up

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.


— Charles Olson


#forgive me #give me #i #me #sleep

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


— Charles Olson


#first #me #poem #realized #simply

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


— Charles Olson


#europe #grace #life #still #which

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


— Charles Olson


#been #belief #country #got #unconscious

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


#count #drop #faucet #i #leak

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.


— Charles Olson


#suddenly #want

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?


— Charles Olson


#nice






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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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