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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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What can I have that I still want?
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a poet never feels useful.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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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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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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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 am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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