A Quote by May Sarton

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
American - Novelist
May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995

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