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• Without anxiety life would have very little savor.

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  Anxiety, Littles

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.38, Open Road Media

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• Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

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  Book, Thinking, Immortality

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• I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

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  School, Essentials, Way

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• In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

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  Journey, Novel, Journal

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.

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  Buried, Persons, Hard

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

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  Autumn, Long, October

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

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  Past, Space, Soul

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

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  Dream, Writing, Your Dreams

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

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  Light, Snow, Abstraction

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• The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

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  Danger, Dangerous

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

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  Important, Remember, Forget

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• A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

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  Would Be, Routine, Body

  May Sarton (2014). “At Eighty-Two: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

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  Solitude, Adore, Thirst

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• “How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

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  Growing Up, Maturity, Thinking

  "Journal of a Solitude".

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• In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.

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  Balance, Action, Compromise

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• we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

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  Thinking, Long, Parent

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

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  Baby, Thinking, Genius

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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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.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Letters, Guilty

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• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

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  Baby, Genius, Forget

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.63, Open Road Media

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• One of the springs of poetry is joy.

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  Spring, Joy, Poetry Is

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.6, Open Road Media

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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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  Body, Sacred, Forget

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• ... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

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  Self, Class, Two

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• We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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  Humor, Laughing, Able

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.70, Open Road Media

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Purpose

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• ... love is healing, even rootless love.

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  Healing, Love Is

  May Sarton (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.217, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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