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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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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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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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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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What can I have that I still want?
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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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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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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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