The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. Sharon Olds More Quotes by Sharon Olds More Quotes From Sharon Olds We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more. Sharon Olds too-much asking wish When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver. Sharon Olds half sides heart To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done. Sharon Olds mind brain thinking Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it. Sharon Olds risk order sex 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 benefits citizens reading 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. Sharon Olds different may country 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. Sharon Olds answering-the-phone phones running 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. Sharon Olds wish feelings writing ... 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. Sharon Olds pouring curves dark I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. Sharon Olds important artist thinking 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 care sound people 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 air years thinking Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step. Sharon Olds quality steps thinking 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. Sharon Olds writing two book One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. Sharon Olds fans baseball men I have heard about the civilized, Sharon Olds i-love-you savages running The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me. Sharon Olds nyu community teaching Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back. Sharon Olds sad-relationship loses persons I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first. Sharon Olds pain long children I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. Sharon Olds writing way thinking
