Zitate von Charles Olson

„And the too strong grasping of it,
when it is pressed together and condensed,
loses it This very thing you are“

—  Charles Olson

Part I, 4
The Kingfishers (1950)
Kontext: 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 it This very thing you are

„Whatever you have to say, leave
The roots on, let them
Dangle

And the dirt

Just to make clear
Where they come from.“

—  Charles Olson

„What does not change / is the will to change“

—  Charles Olson

Part I, 1
The Kingfishers (1950)

„When I saw him, he was at the door, but it did not matter,
he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself
in some crack of the ruins. That it should have been he who said, “The kingfishers!
who cares
for their feathers
now?” His last words had been, “The pool is slime.”“

—  Charles Olson

Part I, 2
The Kingfishers (1950)

„with what violence benevolence is bought
what cost in gesture justice brings
what wrongs domestic rights involve
what stalks
this silence“

—  Charles Olson

Part II
The Kingfishers (1950)

„When the attentions change / the jungle
leaps in even the stones are split
they rive“

—  Charles Olson

Part I, 3
The Kingfishers (1950)

„And all now is war
Where so lately there was peace,
and the sweet brotherhood, the use
of tilled fields.“

—  Charles Olson

Part I, 3
The Kingfishers (1950)

„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

Part I, 2
The Kingfishers (1950)