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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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