American - Poet | November 19, 1942 -
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
Sharon Olds
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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
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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.
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I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
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My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
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If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
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Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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