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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

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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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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a poet never feels useful.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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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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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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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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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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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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