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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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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 suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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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 curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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