Sharon Olds

“Writing poems moves us past where we were when we sat down to write them.”
— Sharon Olds

“I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker. I am not a […] How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess. It’s not really simple, I don’t think, but it’s about ordinary things — feeling about things, about people. I’m not an intellectual. I’m not an abstract thinker. And I’m interested in ordinary life.”
— Sharon Olds