"You don’t help people in your poems. I’ve been trying to help people all my life – that’s my trouble." ― Charles Olson Topic(s): Poetry More From Charles Olson "I don’t live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does." "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." More In Poetry "Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence."― J. G. Stedman "Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it’s just as fast."― Mario Batali "Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."― Thomas Carlyle