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.
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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.Sharon Olds
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.
Sharon Olds
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
Sharon Olds
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
Sharon Olds
These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God.
Sharon Olds
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