"I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life."

-- Fernando Pessoa

“You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.”
“I might have faults but I'm not a big head.”
“I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.”

Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press
“This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.”
“Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.”
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”

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