Phrase by 'Sharon Olds'

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

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Time , New , Work , Job


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

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Time , Never , Back , Job


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

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Being , Own , Force , May


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  You , Me , Need , Book


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

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  More , Feel , Beautiful , Get


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Time , Never , Feel , Think


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  People , Care , Experience , Way


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  New , Great , Line , Some


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Me , Mine , Precious , Clarity


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.

Author: Sharon Olds - American Poet
  Me , Father , Daughter , Decision


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