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May Sarton Inspirational Quotes (158)

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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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