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... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, lo...
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Sharon Olds (b. 1942), U.S. poet. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 18 (1993).
On why writing poetry, though "always difficult," is easier ...
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The symmetrical piles of white bodies,
the round white breast-shapes of the heaps,
the smell of the smoke, the dogs the wires the
rope the hunger. It had happened to others.
There ...
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Sharon Olds (b. 1942), U.S. Jewish poet. "That Year," lines 24-28 (1980).
On seeing, in social studies class, photographs from Auschwitz, a Nazi c...
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