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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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