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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.
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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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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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 asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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