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- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. — George Bernard Shaw
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. — Samuel Johnson
- So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- 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