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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Poet
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May Eleanor Sarton
Growth
Understanding
Fighting
Cannot
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Bound
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Fight

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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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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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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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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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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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