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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
Justify
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Whatever
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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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.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Love is our human miracle.
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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?
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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