Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
Sharon Oldsis an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980 She currently teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
i-love-you running savages
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But and I are savages.
thinking people age
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
grandma laughing tin
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
might world bad-things
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.
writing feelings wish
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.
pain children long
I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.
daughter natural-talent getting-older
The older I get, the more I feel
daughter children memories
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.
sad-relationship persons loses
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
writing thinking way
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.
wish asking too-much
We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.
thinking quality steps
Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.
years down-and looks
I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.
thinking brain mind
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.