Quotes by May Sarton
May Sarton
American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton
Alive from: 1912-1995
Category: Poets (Contemporary) | CountryBelgian, American
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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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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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
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