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"with what violence benevolence is bought what cost in gesture justice brings what wrongs domestic rights involve what stalks this silence"
Charles OlsonThe legends are — Charles Olson
"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
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Charles John Olson was a second generation modernist American poet who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets. The latter includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, and some of the artists and poets associated with the Beat generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
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"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"
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"What does not change / is the will to change"
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"And all now is war Where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields."
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"Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law"
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"When the attentions change / the jungle leaps in even the stones are split they rive"
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