Quotes by Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

Bird

Community

Love Is

… sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

Curves

Dark

Pouring

A family is a mystery.

Mystery

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

Jobs

New Job

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

Baseball

Blow

World

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.

Answering The Phone

Phones

Running

Every poet I know – although there may be some I don’t know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don’t teach – tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

Country

Different

May

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

Feelings

Wish

Writing

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.

Deceiving

Leaving Me

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

Ideas

Knows

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Age

Air

Answering The Phone

Appreciate

Artist

Asking

Baseball

Benefits

Bird

Birthday

Blow

Book

Brain

Care

Children

Citizens

Coffee

Community

Country

Crafts

Creatures

Curves

Dark

Daughter

Deceiving

Different

Distance

Down And

Dream

Drinking

Exercise

Fans

Father

Feelings

Forbidden

Force

Getting Older

Grandma

Half

Heart

Horror

I Have Learned

I Love You

I Quit

Ideas

Important

Jobs

Knows

Laughing

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Quotes by Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

… sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

A family is a mystery.

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

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

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.

Every poet I know – although there may be some I don’t know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don’t teach – tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

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 know him, I knew my idea of him.

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