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
thinking years air
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.
thinking artist important
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
thinking people age
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.
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.
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.
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.
anger bother connection fact feelings sorrow
The fact that there was a lot of anger and sorrow and a sense of connection to destructive feelings in "The Father" doesn't bother me.
job time
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
essays fine gives hyde lewis poets role society writers written
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.
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
almost time whom works writers written
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.
writing wells accurate
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
dream memories ideas
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
quitting said i-quit
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.