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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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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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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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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