Sharon Olds

Im just a raw use of direct language and honest approach to topics such as sexuality, relationships, and violence, both political and personal.

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

I call this "Douche Bag Ode" #enjoy http://t.co/xDsLNTfl

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

Advise I have to young poets in the making. Check out this interview

http://t.co/zfad9dhM

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

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!

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. #speaksforitself

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

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

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

I may have lost my marriage but I would never lose my pen, page, & emotion to create poetry #nothingcanholdmeback #madeitmorereal #thanks

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking #ohwell #givemebenefitofthedoubt

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back #theycantbereplaced

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

That feeling: well so and so writes slowly... if only I wrote slowly 😔

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

The older I get, the more beautiful I feel

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

Why didn't I look this good in my younger years? #latebloomer #betterlatethannever

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

Where have I been while this person is leading my life with her patience, will and order?

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

"A family is a mystery" #findingthingsouteveryday

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

"I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky" # #wecantallbloomlikeabeautifulflower

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

"I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself"

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

Want to know more about me and read my poetry? http://t.co/DGDKBjoP #checkitout

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

The four-beat was something that was just part of my consciousness from before I was born

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

There's nobody there with a copybook making marks against your name; yes I am an atheist

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

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

[Sharon Olds @Old_Sharon]

"Every poet I know - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted."