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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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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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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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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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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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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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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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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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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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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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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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