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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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Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Living
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Best
Giving
Much
Letters
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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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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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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