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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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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 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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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What can I have that I still want?
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