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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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