Sharon Olds
@Old_Sharon
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Im just a raw use of direct language and honest approach to topics such as sexuality, relationships, and violence, both political and personal.
Joined November 2012
Advise I have to young poets in the making. Check out this interview http://t.co/zfad9dhM
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Sometimes I wonder what I could write if I actually too the time and thought about what I was writing... But why waste the time!
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This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. #speaksforitself
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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, I type what comes to mind #whythinkbeforeyouspeak
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I may have lost my marriage but I would never lose my pen, page, & emotion to create poetry #nothingcanholdmeback #madeitmorereal #thanks
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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking #ohwell #givemebenefitofthedoubt
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Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back #theycantbereplaced
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That feeling: well so and so writes slowly... if only I wrote slowly 😔
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Why didn't I look this good in my younger years? #latebloomer #betterlatethannever
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Where have I been while this person is leading my life with her patience, will and order?
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"I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky" # #wecantallbloomlikeabeautifulflower
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"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself"
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Want to know more about me and read my poetry? http://t.co/DGDKBjoP
#checkitout
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The four-beat was something that was just part of my consciousness from before I was born
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There's nobody there with a copybook making marks against your name; yes I am an atheist
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This was her mother, one of the two whom she most loved, the two who loved her most, near the source of love was this #theclasp
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"Every poet I know - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted."
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