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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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