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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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Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Living
Give
Best
Giving
Much
Letters
Easier

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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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a poet never feels useful.
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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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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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 write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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