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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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... 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.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
May Sarton
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
Love is our human miracle.
May Sarton
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
May Sarton
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
May Sarton
Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
May Sarton
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
May Sarton
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
May Sarton
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
May Sarton
Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
May Sarton
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?
May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
May Sarton
