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Stag's Leap: Poems
Sharon Olds
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.”
“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.”
“it is forbidden to love where we are not loved”
“Some people think I should be over my ex by now — maybe I thought I might have been over him more by now. Maybe I’m half over who he was, but not who I thought he was, and not over the wound, sudden deathblow as if out of nowhere, though it came from the core of our life together.”
“each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming, holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.”
“let’s part equals, as we were in every bed, pure equals of the earth”
“He fell in love with her because I didn't suit him anymore - nor him, me, though I could not see it, but he saw it for me.”
“If I could choose, a place to die,” it would never have been in your arms, old darling”
“And you couldn’t say, could you, that the touch you had from me was other than the touch of one who could love for life—whether we were suited or not—for life, like a sentence. And now that I consider, the touch that I had from you became not the touch of the long view, but like the tolerant willingness of one who is passing through.”
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.”
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Book Keywords:
shame, love-s-ending, parting-ways