Quote by Charles Olson
You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people

You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

Other quotes by Charles Olson

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. – Charles Olson

Category:
Morning
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true. – Lafcadio Hearn

Category:
Poetry

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Category:
Poetry

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

Category:
Poetry

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. – John Cage

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. – Roy L. Smith

Category:
Christmas

The great war of 1870 was not between the Germans and the French, but between beer and red wine. When the wine-flask came in contact with the beer-barrel, it was natural for the glass to be shattered. – Arthur Handly Marks, “Berlin: Its Bayonets and Its Beer” (Berlin, 1887 June 14th

Category:
Beer

Hes got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he cant wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play. – Gary McCord

Category:
Morning

Hell is full of good intentions or desires. – St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Category:
Intention