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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

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 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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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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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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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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.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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