Sharon Olds Quotes

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A week after my father died
suddenly I understood
his fondness for me was safe — nothing
could touch it.... I suddenly thought, with amazement, he will always
love me now, and I laughed — he was dead, dead!

Sharon Olds

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

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

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am
paying attention to small beauties,
whatever I have — as if it were our duty
to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world.

Sharon Olds

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

Sharon Olds

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

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Born: November 19, 1942 (age 81)

Bio: Sharon Olds is an American poet.

Known for:

Stag's Leap (2012)
Satan says (1980)
The gold cell (1987)
The Dead and the Living (1984)
Strike sparks (2004)

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