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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

May Sarton
Silence, Read Between The Lines, Ifs
May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media

I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

May Sarton
Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

May Sarton
Voice, Space, Silence

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