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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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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a poet never feels useful.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, 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 were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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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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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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