May Sarton Quotes - Page 2

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• Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

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  Letting Go, Pain, Order

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

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• Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

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  Life, Music, Flower

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

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  Fighting, Understanding, Growth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

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  Intimacy, Instant, Disillusion

  May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

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  Strength, Sometimes, Source

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• How slowly one comes to understand anything!

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  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

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  Revision, Creation, Process

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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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  Flower, Eye, Growth

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• What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

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  Healing, Grieving, People

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• Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

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  Absence

  May Sarton (2014). “Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New”, p.13, Open Road Media

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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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  Feelings, Balance, Shifting

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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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  Art, Psychics, Mad

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

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• The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

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  Country, Interesting, Age

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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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  Novel, Felt, Written

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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  Comfort, Conflict, Desperate

  May Sarton (2014). “Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• In the country of pain we are each alone.

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  Country, Pain

  May Sarton (2014). “Halfway to Silence: Poems”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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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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  Children, Powerful, Entrepreneur

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

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  Age, Aging

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

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  Believe, Feelings, Analysis

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• The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

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  Nature, Mean, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.111, Open Road Media

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• The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.

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  Hate, Moving, People

  1965 Hilary Stevens. Mrs Stevens Hears theMermaids Singing, pt.2.

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• No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

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  Love, Relationship, Giving Up

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

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  Mistake, Optimistic, Past

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

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  Sad, Depression, Illumination

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

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