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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

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Beauty, Order, Meditation

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

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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

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Women, Memorable, Wife

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.37, Open Road Media

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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

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Unimportant

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.87, Open Road Media

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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

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Loneliness, Solitude, One Thing

May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.16, Open Road Media

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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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Growing Up, Hug, Doe

May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.30, Open Road Media

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I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

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Math, Science, Order

May Sarton (2014). “As We Are Now: A Novel”, p.19, Open Road Media

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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

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Innocent Person, Machines, Faces

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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

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Real, Fall, Battle

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

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Poverty, Rich, Nothingness

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.156, Open Road Media

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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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Love, Real, Giving

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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.

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Routine, Way, Prison

"A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry".

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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

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Fashion, What Matters, Trying

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

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Light, Age, Ascent

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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.

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Roles, Sometimes, Imagine

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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

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Years, Light, Dying

May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

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Bondage

May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

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For after all we make our faces as we go along.

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Faces

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

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People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

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Talking, People, Joy

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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

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Best Friend, Friendship, Losing Friends

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.424, Open Road Media

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It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

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Hurt, Two, People

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Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

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Prayer, Real, Artist

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.127, Open Road Media

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The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

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Compassion, Suffering, World

May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.185, Open Road Media

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Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

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Fighting, Dragons, Joy

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.175, Open Road Media

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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

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Miracle, Miraculous

May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.189, Open Road Media

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I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.

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Friendship, Bears, Sometimes

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