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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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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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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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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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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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a poet never feels useful.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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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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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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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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