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- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde
- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. — Oscar Wilde
- The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
- I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson
- You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present. — Charles Olson
- The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being. — Charles Olson