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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
May Sarton
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
May Sarton
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
May Sarton
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
May Sarton
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
May Sarton
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
May Sarton
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
May Sarton
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
May Sarton
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
We only keep what we lose.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
May Sarton
You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
May Sarton
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
May Sarton
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
May Sarton
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
