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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
-May Sarton
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I Write Poems, Have Always Written Them,

May Sarton
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... we write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... we write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. we write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... when i don't write, i feel my world shrinking... i feel i lose my fire and my color.
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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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If the motive of writing is for some people a kind of exercise in dirty laundry, that's one thing. i've always thought of my poems as meant to be overheard, as i think all of these poems are. it seems to me if you get experience right, even your most painful or humiliating experiences - if you get those experiences right for yourself and make discoveries as you go along and find for them some formal glue - they will be poems for others.
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The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. the personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; i never generalize, intellectualise. i see, i hear, i feel. these are my primitive elements of discovery. music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. it is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.
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It's a big thing to call yourself a poet. all i can say is that i have always written poems. i don't think i'm interested in any discussion about whether i'm a good poet, a bad poet or a great poet. but i am sure, i want to write great poems. i think every poet should want that.
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. i didn't know the poems would travel. i didn't go to lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into arabic.
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