69 Quotes by Charles Olson

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

I couldn't write a canto if I sat down and deliberately tried. My interest is not in cantos. It's in another condition of a song.

What does not change is the will to change.

Knowledge is the harvest of attention.

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

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

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

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

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