69 Quotes by Charles Olson

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION

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

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

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

Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?

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

I was playing catch with the European audience.

I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.