Sharon Olds Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.”

“Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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