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.
I did not know him, I knew my idea of him. - Sharon Olds
I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.
- Sharon Olds
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 thr… - Sharon Olds
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 thr…
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. - Sharon Olds
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain - Sharon Olds
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. - Sharon Olds
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
.. 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 a… - Sharon Olds
.. 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 a…
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school. - Sharon Olds
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on th… - Sharon Olds
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on th…
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. - Sharon Olds
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
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