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Sharon Olds quotes

American Poet November 19, 1942

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My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. Sharon Olds
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what..."
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself."
I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who..."
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. Sharon Olds
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very..."
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. Sharon Olds
I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I say. Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is..."
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "...the liquor like fire in his hand"
...the liquor like fire in his hand Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being..."
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the..."
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. Sharon Olds
Well, "The Wellspring" was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. Sharon Olds
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me. Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds quote: "I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is..."
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. Sharon Olds

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