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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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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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We only keep what we lose.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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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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