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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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