There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.
Sharon OldsI 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.
Sharon OldsWhen anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.
Sharon Olds