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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

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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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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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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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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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 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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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