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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: A family is a mystery.

A family is a mystery.

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: The older I get, the more I feel

The older I get, the more I feel

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

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

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

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

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

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

Sharon Olds quotes: I did not know him, I knew my ideaof him.

I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.

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

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

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

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 quotes: He fell in love with her because Ididn't suit him anymore -nor him, me, though I could not see it, but hesaw it for me.

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

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

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: it isforbidden to love where we are not loved

it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved

Sharon Olds quotes: 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

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 quotes: As if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

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

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

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 quotes: There is something in me maybe somedayto be written; now it is folded, and folded,and folded, like a note in school.

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 quotes: If I couldchoose, a place to die,it would never have been in your arms, old darling

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

Sharon Olds quotes: Let's partequals, as we were in every bed, pureequals of the earth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: I have heard about the civilized,the marriages run ontalk, elegant andhonest, rational.But and I are savages.

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

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

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

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

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: ...the liquor like fire in his hand

...the liquor like fire in his hand

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

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

Sharon Olds quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.