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

A family is a mystery. — Sharon Olds

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up. — Sharon Olds

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. — Sharon Olds

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type. — Sharon Olds

The older I get, the more I feel — Sharon Olds

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me. — Sharon Olds

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. — Sharon Olds

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back. — 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 or whatever. — Sharon Olds

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less. — Sharon Olds

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! — Sharon Olds

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful. — Sharon Olds

I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him. — Sharon Olds

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. — Sharon Olds

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step. — Sharon Olds

He fell in love with her because I
didn't suit him anymore -
nor him, me, though I could not see it, but he
saw it for me. — Sharon Olds

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work. — Sharon Olds

Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back. — Sharon Olds

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying. — Sharon Olds

it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved — Sharon Olds

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a ... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. — Sharon Olds

As if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness. — Sharon Olds

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more. — Sharon Olds

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. — Sharon Olds

Sometimes I can almost see around our heads,
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them. — Sharon Olds

There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school. — Sharon Olds

If I could
choose, a place to die,
it would never have been in your arms, old darling — Sharon Olds

Let's part
equals, as we were in every bed, pure
equals of the earth — Sharon Olds

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself. — Sharon Olds

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. — Sharon Olds

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. — Sharon Olds

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. — Sharon Olds

I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time. — Sharon Olds

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. — 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. — Sharon Olds

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. — 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. — Sharon Olds

...the liquor like fire in his hand — Sharon Olds

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience. — Sharon Olds

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it. — Sharon Olds

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. — Sharon Olds

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done. — 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