Top 23 Quotes by Sharon Olds

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.

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

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

I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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