May Sarton Quotes - Page 10

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• When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

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  Pain, Intimate Relationships, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

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  Order, Disorder, Sacraments

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

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  Flower, Passion, Snow

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.

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  Garden, Roots, Gloves

  May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.135, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Time unbounded is hard to handle.

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  Hard To Handle, Handle, Hard

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.116, Open Road Media

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• There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

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  Winter, Solitude, Alive

  May Sarton (2014). “As Does New Hampshire: And Other Poems”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

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  Doors, Half, Hours

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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