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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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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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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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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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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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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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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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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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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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