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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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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
May Sarton
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
May Sarton
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
May Sarton
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
May Sarton
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
May Sarton
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
May Sarton
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
May Sarton
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
May Sarton