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Charles Olson
8 quotes
“What does not change / is the will to change”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I saw him, he was at the door, but it did not matter, he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself in some crack of the ruins. That it should have been he who said, “The kingfishers! who cares for their feathers now?” His last words had been, “The pool is slime.”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The legends are legends. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. Nor, by its nesting, still the waters, with the new year, for seven days. It is true, it does nest with the opening year, but not on the waters.”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And all now is war Where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the attentions change / the jungle leaps in even the stones are split they rive”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can be precise. The factors are in the animal and / or the machine the factors are communication and / or control, both involve the message. And what is the message? The message is a discrete or continuous sequence of measurable events distributed in time is the birth of the air, is the birth of water, is a state between the origin and the end, between birth and the beginning of another fetid nest is change, presents no more than itself And the too strong grasping of it, when it is pressed together and condensed, loses itThis very thing you are”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“with what violence benevolence is bought what cost in gesture justice brings what wrongs domestic rights involve what stalks this silence”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source