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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.
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
Age: 54
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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 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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Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.
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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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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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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 wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
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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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I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.
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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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I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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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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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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Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
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A family is a mystery.
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The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
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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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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
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