Sharon Olds quotes

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! (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. View quote
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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. View quote
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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. View quote
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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. View quote
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The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. View quote
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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. View quote
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I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me. View quote
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I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. View quote
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There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school. View quote
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I did not know him, I knew my idea of him. (Sharon Olds)
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. View quote
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it is forbidden to love where we are not loved. View quote
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A family is a mystery. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. View quote
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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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