Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
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…
- Sharon Olds
I did not know him, I knew my idea of him. - Sharon Olds
I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain - Sharon Olds
I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain
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.
.. 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…
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. - 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. - 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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