Charles Olson
Charles Olson
Charles Olsonwas a second generation American 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. He described himself not so much as a poet or writer but as "an archeologist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1910
CountryUnited States of America
Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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.
I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
I was playing catch with the European audience.
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.
Were all moving, moving, moving. Isnt it nice?
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble
ONE PERCEPTION MUST IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTLY LEAD TO A FURTHER PERCEPTION
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.