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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
Failures
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Unimportant

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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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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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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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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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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’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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