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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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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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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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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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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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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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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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