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Sharon Olds is an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980. She teaches creative writing at New York University. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. November 1942
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Satan Says
Satan Says
Sharon Olds
Satan Says
Satan Says
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Famous Sharon Olds Quotes

“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”

Sharon Olds

“I did not know him, I knew my idea
of him.”

Sharon Olds

Source: Stag's Leap: Poems

“I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me.”

Sharon Olds

Source: Stag's Leap: Poems

“it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved”

Sharon Olds

Source: Stag's Leap: Poems

“A family is a mystery.”

Sharon Olds

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