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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

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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Life

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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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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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.
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We only keep what we lose.
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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.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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