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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.

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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Deprivation
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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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