Charles Olson

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

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

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.