Clarity Quote by Sharon Olds

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.”

— Sharon Olds

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

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

“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”

— Sharon Olds

“...the liquor like fire in his hand”

— Sharon Olds