"Don't be in such a hurry."

-- Billie Holiday

#Last Words Quotes

“I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of language than I had been before. That was challenging and gratifying in so many ways. Then with these new poems, I've gone back to free verse, because it would be easy to paint myself into a corner with form. I saw myself becoming more opaque with the formal poems than I wanted to be. It took me a long time to work back into free verse again. That was a challenge in itself. You're always having to push yourself.”
“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.”

Source : May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media
“It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.”
“When I was offered the part in Shakespeare In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!”
“Good government has to mean less government.”
“Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.”
“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
“Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?”

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