“Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.” ThinkingQualityStepsSeeingResponsiblePrimeOur RelationshipSeeing YourselfBrokenhearted Author:Sharon Olds
“I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.” ThinkingImportantArtistSenses Author:Sharon Olds
“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.” ThinkingWayWritingEasyPerceiveThinker Author:Sharon Olds
“I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.” PeopleThinkingKnowsAge Author:Sharon Olds
“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.” ThinkingNeedsYearsUseAirMetaphorBreathe Author:Sharon Olds
“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.” ThinkingMindDoneWholeBodySeemsBrainSpreadSenses 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
