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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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