"Because a poem is not written while running……" — Sharon Olds
"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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Sharon Olds
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51 Quotes by Sharon Olds
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The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
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The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the…
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The older I get, the more I feel
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She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn…
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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
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When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half…
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Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes…
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Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe…
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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
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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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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How…
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