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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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  Light, Expression, Color

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

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  Tragedy, Needed, Humans

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• Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!

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  Share, Nature Love, Bases

  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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• We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

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  Patience, Art, Patient

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

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  Inspiration, Feelings, Inspired

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• I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

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  Christmas, People, Effort

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.

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  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

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  Life And Death, Learning To Trust, Ready

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

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  Earth, Gentle

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.642, Open Road Media

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• I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

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  Book, Answers, Born

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

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  Success, Running, Long

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• I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

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  Lying, Writing, Heart

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• About loving, I have little to learn from the young.

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  Littles, Youth, Young

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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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  Life, Solitude, Breathe

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.100, Open Road Media

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• If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

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  Sweet, New York, Paris

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• It feels a long way up and down from zero.

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  Zero, Long, Way

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.248, Open Road Media

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• There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

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  Garden, Doors, Religion

  "The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering".

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• For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

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  Self Confidence, Age, Weakness

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.181, Open Road Media

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• My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

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  Children, Musical Genius, Years

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• Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

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  Giving, Able, Wealth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

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  Dark, Age, Violence

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

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  Writing, Thinking, Long

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Lasts

  May Sarton (2015). “Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year”, Open Road Media

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• Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.

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  Inspiring, Children, Play

  May Sarton (2014). “Kinds of Love: A Novel”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.

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  Angel, Break Through, Singing

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.47, Open Road Media

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