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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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