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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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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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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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What can I have that I still want?
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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a poet never feels useful.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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