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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
May Sarton
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
May Sarton
About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
May Sarton
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!
May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
May Sarton
They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
May Sarton
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. . . .
May Sarton
There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
May Sarton
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
May Sarton
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton
