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a poet never feels useful.

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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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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We only keep what we lose.
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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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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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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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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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