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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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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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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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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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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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What can I have that I still want?
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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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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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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