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Writing Quotes by May Sarton
- When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you…
- I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
- We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or…
- I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
- I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
- Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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