My poems - I don't even lik... by Sharon Olds, an American Poet

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“My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.”

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Name: Sharon Olds

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Nov 19, 1942

Profession: Poet

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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important 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 older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.

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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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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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