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

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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

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, its just been so worth the effort. Its like Im planting a garden in my head. – Jane Campion

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Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. – Robert Frost

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Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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