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Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
Age: 54
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I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.
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.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
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When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
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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.
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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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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.
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Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
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I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
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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.
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Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
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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.
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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
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Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
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