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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
Letters
Easier
Living
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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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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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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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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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