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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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What can I have that I still want?
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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