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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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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
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
May Sarton
We only keep what we lose.
May Sarton
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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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 . . .
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
It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
May Sarton
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
May Sarton
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
May Sarton
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
May Sarton
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
May Sarton
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
May Sarton
