Best Sharon Olds Quotes
- We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more. All
- Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or… Bear
- Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. Accurate
- When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. All
- Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college;… Age
- Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. Destroyed
- 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 the ground,… Bird
- Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw… Clarity
- Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so… Exercise
- 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… Arm
- Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. Began
- I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. All
- A family is a mystery. Family
- 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… All
- Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. Comes Back
- it is forbidden to love where we are not loved Forbidden
- 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… Deceive
- I did not know him, I knew my idea of him. Funny
- There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school. Folded
- ... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we… Bound
- Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step. Amazing
- Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. Baseball
- There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers… Alcoholism
- The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. Almost Beautiful
- I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I… Feel