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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.

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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Find
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Every
Think
Poem
Thinking
Novel
Stand
Written

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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 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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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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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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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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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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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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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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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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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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