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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.”

Quote by May Sarton

Book:Journal of a Solitude

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Journal of a Solitude

This book is a collection of personal reflections and musings on the nature of solitude, offering readers a glimpse into the author's thoughts and experiences. more

Author

American poet, born on May 3, 1912, and died on July 16, 1995. Known for her profound psychological insights and delicate portrayals of natural landscapes, May Sarton's poetry has had a significant impact on contemporary poetry, earning her numerous literary awards. more

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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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Book:Conversations with May Sarton

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“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

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Book:The Holy State and the Profane State

Source: The Holy State and the Profane State

“The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.”

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“People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.”

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Book:Crucial Conversations: A Novel

Source: Crucial Conversations: A Novel

“Time unbounded is hard to handle.”

Hard Handle Hard To Handle

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“We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.”

Knows Way Littles Understanding Drink Deeper Desperation Inhale Before Death

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“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

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Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.”

Beautiful Spirit Beauty Sacrifice Worst Fashion Superiors Fantastic Abstract Concrete Vulgar

Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

“It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone”

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Book:The Indicator

Source: The Indicator

“Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.”

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