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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.
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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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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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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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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