May Sarton by May Sarton

Author:May Sarton
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504017923
Publisher: Open Road Media

Wheelock:

What do you want to be remembered for, as a writer and as a person?

Sarton:

Oh Goodness, I don’t know. I guess for being fully human, if I am.

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On the Poet and Poetry

My Sisters, O My Sisters

Nous qui voulions poser, image ineffaceable

Comme un delta divin notre main sur le sable

Anna de Noailles

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Dorothy Wordsworth, dying, did not want to read,

“I am too busy with my own feelings,” she said.

And all women who have wanted to break out

Of the prison of consciousness to sing or shout

Are strange monsters who renounce the treasure

Of their silence for a curious devouring pleasure.

Dickinson, Rossetti, Sappho—they all know it,

Something is lost, strained, unforgiven in the poet.

She abdicates from life or like George Sand

Suffers from the mortality in an immortal hand,

Loves too much, spends a whole life to discover

She was born a good grandmother, not a good lover.

Too powerful for men: Madame de Stael. Too sensitive:

Madame de Sévigné, who burdened where she meant to give.

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