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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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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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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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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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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 more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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