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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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 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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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