American - Poet | November 19, 1942 -
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
Sharon Olds
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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
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I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
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When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
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Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
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I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
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It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
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