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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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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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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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
May Sarton
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
May Sarton
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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
May Sarton
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
May Sarton
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
May Sarton
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
May Sarton
O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
May Sarton
