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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.

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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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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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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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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