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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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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More quotes by May Sarton
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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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 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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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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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 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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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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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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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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