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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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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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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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a poet never feels useful.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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