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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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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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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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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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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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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