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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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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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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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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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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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a poet never feels useful.
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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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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.
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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 addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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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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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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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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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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