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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

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Sex, Despair, Treasure

May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.95, Open Road Media

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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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Long, Memorial, Figures

May Sarton (2014). “Coming into Eighty: Poems”, p.36, Open Road Media

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Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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Self, Innocence, Pure

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.146, Open Road Media

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Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

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Solitude, Flavor, Salt

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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

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Joy, Absurd, Pencils

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.98, Open Road Media

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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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Failure, Artist, Growing

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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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Dream, Humble, Humility

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They are commiting murder who merely live.

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Murder

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.40, Open Road Media

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When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

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Important, Always Alone, Important Things

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.78, Open Road Media

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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

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Passion, Poet, My Passion

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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

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Looks, Knack, Were Meant To Be

May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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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.

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Stress, Solitude, Balance

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.

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Past, Wrinkles, Years

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.53, Open Road Media

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I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

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Expression, Masculine And Feminine, Personality

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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.

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Running, Fun, Islands

May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.51, Open Road Media

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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

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Giving, Poison, Inward

May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

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Believe, Moving, Creative

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Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

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Pain, Winter, Fever

May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.73, Open Road Media

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I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!

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Anger, People, Safety

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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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Writing, World, Able

May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.118, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

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Respect, Self, Needs

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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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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Ambition, Desire, Made

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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

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Unexpected Gifts, Unexpected, Life Is

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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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Pain, Mean, Doors

May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

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Cat, Desire, Legs

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Born: May 3, 1912
Died: July 16, 1995
Occupation: Poet
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