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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Poet
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May Eleanor Sarton
Whether
Inhale
Death
Enrich
Littles
Desperation
Little
Gifts
Way
Search
Deeper
Drink
Understanding
Fizz

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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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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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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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We only keep what we lose.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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