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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
May Sarton
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
May Sarton
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
May Sarton
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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.
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 suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
May Sarton
... 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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
May Sarton
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
May Sarton
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
May Sarton
Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
May Sarton
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
May Sarton
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton