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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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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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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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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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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“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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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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