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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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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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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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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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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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We only keep what we lose.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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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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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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