Sharon Olds Quotations

Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

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.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

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.

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.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

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.