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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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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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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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“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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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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