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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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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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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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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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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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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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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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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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