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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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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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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best – out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
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Love, we still think, many of us, is for the young. But what do they really know about it? It is hard for them to differentiate between sexual passion and love itself, for instance.
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Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
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There are some griefs so loud
They could bring down the sky,
And there are griefs so still
None knows how deep they lie.
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The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.
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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 suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.
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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove
Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.
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I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.
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Unless the gentle inherit the earth,
There will be no earth.
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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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May Sarton
Born:
May 3, 1912
Died:
July 16, 1995
(aged 83)
Bio:
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist.
Known for:
Journal of a Solitude (1973)
Plant Dreaming Deep (1968)
At Seventy (1984)
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)
As we are now (1973)
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