Sharon Olds Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.
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.
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.
Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.
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.
didn't suit him anymore -
nor him, me, though I could not see it, but he
saw it for me.
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.
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.
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.
Sometimes I can almost see around our heads,
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them.
like gnats around a streetlight in summer,
The children we could have,
The glimmer of them.
There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.
I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.