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“Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying.”

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Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

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Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

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Sharon Olds is a renowned American contemporary poet, born on November 19, 1942. Her poetry is known for its straightforward and candid style, often exploring themes of love, family, and death through personal experiences. more

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“I had not put into words, yet—the worst thing, but I thought that I could say it, if I said it word by word.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“If I ever prayed, as a child, for everlasting union, these were its shoes: one dew-licked kicked-off slipper of a being now flying, one sunrise-milk-green boot of the dead, which I wore, as I dreamed.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“It struck cold awe to my heart, now, to look at who I had been who had thought it was impossible that he or I could touch another.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“And to live in those rooms, where one of his smiles might emerge, like something almost from another place, another time, another set of creatures, was to feel blessed, and to be held in mysteriousness, and a little in mourning.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“We joked about putting it off, but underneath the joking, grim and hidden, he wanted to leave me, and he was working toward it and against it, maybe worried he could not do it, longing for it and fearing it, and not speaking of it”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“The speculative thinker makes Christianity into theology, instead of recognizing that a living relationship to Christ involves passion, struggle, decision, personal appropriation, and inner transformation.' (Moore's summary of Kierkegaard)”

Book:Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

Source: Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

“and there is nothing to be done for it, it can only be known and borne, it cannot be turned into anything fruitful or sweet, but just be faced, as what it was”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“and love seemed to rest, on us, in a place where, for that hour, it felt death could not reach, and someone was singing in my hearing, without words, that no one can live without reaching death, but I could have lived without having loved almost without reserve, and for a moment, then, I thought I lived forever with him.”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

“And slowly he starts to seem more far away, he seems to waft, drift at a distance”

Sharon Olds Stag S Leap

Book:Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems

Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems