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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

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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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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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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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