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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.

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
Mountain
Cannot
Mountains
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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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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.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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What can I have that I still want?
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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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.
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