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What can I have that I still want?

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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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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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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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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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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