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Sharon Olds

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

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

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"I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type."
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"So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!"
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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."
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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."
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"This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force."
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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."
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"I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back."
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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."
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"I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me."
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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."
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