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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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“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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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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We only keep what we lose.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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What can I have that I still want?
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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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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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