I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.Sharon Olds
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
Sharon Olds
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
Sharon Olds
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
Sharon Olds
Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us just really busy, really overcommitted.
Sharon Olds
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
Sharon Olds
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