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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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

— Sharon Olds

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

— Sharon Olds

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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

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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

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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking! ↗

— Sharon Olds

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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

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

— Sharon Olds

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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

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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. ↗

— Sharon Olds

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