186 Quotes by Sharon Olds

  • Author Sharon Olds
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    and love seemed to rest, on us, in a place where, for that hour, it felt death could not reach, and someone was singing in my hearing, withoutwords, that no one can live without reachingdeath, but I could have lived without havingloved almost without reserve, and for amoment, then, I thought I lived forever with him.

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  • Author Sharon Olds
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    and for an instant he's alive toward me, a gem of sea ofpond in his eye. Then that retreat into himself,which always moved me, as if there werea sideways gravity, in him, toward somevanishing point.

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