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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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