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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.
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
Age: 54
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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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Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.
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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'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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I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.
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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.
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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
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Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
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I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
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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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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.
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I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.
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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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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.
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The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
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A family is a mystery.
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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
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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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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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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.
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