"I think this is true for all artists.……" — Sharon Olds
"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."
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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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Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has.…
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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 that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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