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A family is a mystery.
— 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 did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me. — 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
of him. — 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
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
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
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
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
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school. — Sharon Olds
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages. — Sharon Olds
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
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