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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

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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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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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 poet never feels useful.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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