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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

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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Become
Many
Years
Time
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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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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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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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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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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