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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.
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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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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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
May Sarton
...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.
May Sarton
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
May Sarton
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
May Sarton
Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
May Sarton
Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
May Sarton
We only keep what we lose.
May Sarton
So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
May Sarton
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
May Sarton
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
May Sarton
