Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
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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.Sharon Olds
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
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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I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.
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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
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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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