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Sharon Olds

"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."

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Donna Grant

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

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Donna Grant

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

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Donna Grant

"The world is the puzzle, itself; but it is always in principle."

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Donna Grant

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

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Donna Grant

"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."

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Donna Grant

"And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code."

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Donna Grant

"They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion."

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Donna Grant

"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."

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Donna Grant

"What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true."

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Donna Grant

"Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?"

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Sharon Olds
"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."

World

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

Time

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

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

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Sharon Olds
"The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else."

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

Being

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

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