All Sharon Olds Quotes
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
Sharon Olds
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I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
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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.
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The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
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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 x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
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Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Sharon Olds
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
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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.
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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
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I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
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