May Sarton Quotes - Page 8

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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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• O cruel cloudless space,
  And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies!
  Why do we feel restored
  As in a sacramental place?
  Here Mystery is artifice,
  And here a vision of such peace is stored,
  Healing flows from it through our eyes.

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  Lying, Healing, Eye

  May Sarton (2014). “In Time Like Air: Poems”, p.55, 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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• Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

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  Mother, Grief, Breathe

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.678, 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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• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

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  Frustration, Age, Growing

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.91, 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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• I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged. There is no space for what wells up from the subconscious; those dreams and images live in deep still water and simply submerge when the day gets scattered.

  May Sarton

  Dream, Space, Water

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.103, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  May Sarton

  Prayer, Real, Artist

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.127, 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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• 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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• 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.

  May Sarton

  Years, Light, Dying

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, 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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• 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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• 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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• For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.

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  Moral, Dilemma, Making Peace

  "Recovering: A Journal".

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• Gardening is the instrument of grace.

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  Grace, Gardening, Instruments

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• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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  Holiday, Giving, Environmental

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .

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  Able, Sometimes, Dishes

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• ...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

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  Sex, Writing, Two

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