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Charles Olson

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When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?


— Charles Olson


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


— Charles Olson


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You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.


— Charles Olson


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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.


— Charles Olson


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


— Charles Olson


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Atlantis will rise again.


— 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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