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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove
Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.
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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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You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must also believe in the vehicle for expressing them, in the talent.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time...
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The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.
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Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
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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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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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Have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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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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