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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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