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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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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
May Sarton
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
May Sarton
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
May Sarton
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
May Sarton
They are commiting murder who merely live.
May Sarton
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
May Sarton
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
May Sarton
I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
May Sarton
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
May Sarton
I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
May Sarton
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May Sarton
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
May Sarton
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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
Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
May Sarton
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
May Sarton
Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
May Sarton
