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We only keep what we lose.

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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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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 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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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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.
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