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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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.
May Sarton
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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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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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.
May Sarton
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
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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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.
May Sarton
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton
It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
May Sarton
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
