#her

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. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#by the time #could #feel #fiction #fiction writers

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. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

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. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#beginning #experience #had #in the beginning #others

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#drawing #farmer #feel #going #just

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is. ↗

— Pat Oliphant

#constitution #else #exercising #fact #free

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here. ↗

— Tony Oliva

#here #i #later #me #opportunity

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#country #disease #extreme #heart #heart disease

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #cooking #estimate #everybody #just

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #done #great #i #like

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#am #anything #even #i #i am