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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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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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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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We only keep what we lose.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
May Sarton
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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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