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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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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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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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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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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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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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