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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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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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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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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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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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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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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 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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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a poet never feels useful.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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