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Sharon Olds has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
• The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of…
• The older I get, the more I feel
• She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
• So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
• When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the…
• Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you…
• Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if…
• Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in…
• At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
• I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
• I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

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