Sharon Olds Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.”

“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.”