May Sarton Quotes About Heart
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I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt, with conflict; I wrote poems to and about them, I put them into novels (disguised of course); I brooded upon why they were as they were, so often maddening don't you know? I wrote them ridiculous letters. I lived with their faces. I knew their every gesture by heart. I stalked them like wild animals. I studied them as if they were maps of the world -- and in a way I suppose they were.
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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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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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