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Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

American Poet

Born: Nov 19, 1942

About Experience Know Me Think Time

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

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

Own Poem Force Itself May Being Assemble Creature

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

Beautiful Older More Almost Feel Get

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

Time Said Quit Any Meant Things

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. Sharon Olds

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. Sharon Olds

Life Dance Think Air Out More Take Metaphor Years Than Maybe Breathe Use Many Aware Deeply Need

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. Sharon Olds

Time Other Extreme About Horror Horrors Could Hear Heard Same Quite Same Time Might Used Village Villages Amount

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. Sharon Olds

Depression Day Every Day Citizen Reading Every Other Benefit Would Writer Outweigh Sure Least Times Get Front Front Page Page Every Other Day

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

Age People Think Out Know

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