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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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We only keep what we lose.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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