"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie? / True Poems flee?

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

Poetry's about what can't be said. WS Merwin

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. . . Gwendolyn Brooks

His poems are made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive. - The American Poetry Review

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell