Abyss Quote by Sharon Olds Download Open image “The older I get, the more I feel” — Sharon Olds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abyss Age Apple cider Apple pie Asthma Brittany Cider Daughter Feels Financial security Getting older Growing older Inspirational Kindred Kindred spirit Little things Love Mom and daughter Mom daughter Mother and daughter Mother and daughter relationship Mother daughter Mother daughter relationship Muppet show Natural talent Negative energy Peace and quiet Sparkling Spiritual change
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
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… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam became so proud that he wished to become God and died for his pride; the Son of God humbled Himself unto death, and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
I've been to unpretty places with the roles I've played, and I'm attracted to reckless abandon. I like being taken to the edge of… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.' 'I won't let you fall. — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many women don’t know what orgasm is. Many men don’t know was total orgasm is. Many only achieve a local orgasm, a genital orgasm;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
