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Sharon Olds quotes

American Poet November 19, 1942

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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "A family is a mystery."
A family is a mystery. Sharon Olds
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful."
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. Sharon Olds
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. Sharon Olds
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. Sharon Olds
The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time..."
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year..."
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't..."
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! Sharon Olds
Where have Ibeen while this person is leading my lifewith her patience, will and order? In the garden; on the bee and under the bee; in thecrown gathering cumulus andflensing it from the boughs Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well...."
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. Sharon Olds
I have never thought I could take it, not evenfor the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from along lineof womenwho put themselvesfirst. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time,..."
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. Sharon Olds
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time. Sharon Olds

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