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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

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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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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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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