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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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