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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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a poet never feels useful.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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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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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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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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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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