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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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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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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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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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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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