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Famous Sharon Olds Quotes
“One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.”
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”
“it is forbidden to love where we are not loved”
“I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.”
“Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.”
“The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.”
“So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!”
“At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.”
“I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.”
“I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.”
“I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.”
“I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.”
“This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.”
“Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.”
“When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.”
“Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.”