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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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Anyone
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Enough
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Fifteen
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Novels
Several

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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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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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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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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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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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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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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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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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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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