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I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

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

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.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

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

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

Charles Olson