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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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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.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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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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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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