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May Sarton Inspirational Quotes (158)

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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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