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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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a poet never feels useful.
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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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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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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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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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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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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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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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