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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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More quotes by May Sarton
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
May Sarton
It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
May Sarton
The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
May Sarton
Love is our human miracle.
May Sarton
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
May Sarton
It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
May Sarton
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
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).
May Sarton
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
May Sarton
Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
May Sarton
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
May Sarton
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
May Sarton
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
May Sarton
Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
May Sarton
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
May Sarton
What can I have that I still want?
May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
May Sarton
... love is healing, even rootless love.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
