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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

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 write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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