“Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.” PeopleFeelingsPoetOrdinaryOrdinary PeopleSteamValve Author:Sharon Olds
“Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.” ThinkingWayChildrenWarSelfAgeParentMemoriesSeeingObjectsCollegeBeatsOrdinaryDaughterMirrorsDressesPhotographOneselfNewspapersTeethNakedFairyBreastsHotelMy DaughterGesturesBathroomExamTooth FairyBack To College Author:Sharon Olds
“I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.” BodyRocksArmsPagesOrdinaryAskingPocketsPensJust BeingObserversNotebookDistortionLiverFeeler Author:Sharon Olds
