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Your poems will happen when no one is there.

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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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.
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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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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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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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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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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a poet never feels useful.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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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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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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