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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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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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