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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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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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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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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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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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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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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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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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