Half Quote by Sharon Olds

“When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.”

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Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its…

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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…

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“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the…

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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 laugh.

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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I…

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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…

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

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Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance…

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Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream…

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

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“...the liquor like fire in his hand”

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