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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Sharon Olds

Distance, Wish, World

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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

Sharon Olds

Writing, Accurate, Wells

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Ideas, Would Be, Lines

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

Sharon Olds

Running, Phones, Answering The Phone

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Reading, Citizens, Benefits

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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

Sharon Olds

Artist, Thinking, Important

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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.

Sharon Olds

Book, Writing, Two

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Writing, Thinking, Way

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Village, Might, Horror

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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

Sharon Olds

Baseball, Men, Fans

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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.

Sharon Olds

Wellspring, Wells, Written

Interview with Dwight Garner, www.english.illinois.edu.

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Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.

Sharon Olds

Country, Different, May

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A family is a mystery.

Sharon Olds

Mystery

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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.

Sharon Olds

Vision, Puff, Crafts

Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. July 1, 1996.

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I have heard about the civilized,
the marriages run on
talk, elegant and
honest, rational.
But and I are savages.

Sharon Olds

I Love You, Running, Savages

Sharon Olds, “Primitive”

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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.

Sharon Olds

Children, Pain, Long

Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.55, Knopf

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She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.

Sharon Olds

Grandma, Laughing, Teeth

Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.18, Knopf

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I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Sharon Olds

Thinking, People, Age

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Dream, Memories, Ideas

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Writing, Feelings, Wish

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Thinking, Air, Years

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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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.

Sharon Olds

Teaching, Nyu, Community

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Sharon Olds

Drinking, Coffee, Marijuana

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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.

Sharon Olds

Appreciate, World, Might

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At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

Sharon Olds

Jobs, New Job

Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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Born: November 19, 1942
Occupation: Poet
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