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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

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
Nothingness
Poetry
Poverty
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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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.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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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.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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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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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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We only keep what we lose.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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