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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Love is our human miracle.
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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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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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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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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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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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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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