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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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Dangerous

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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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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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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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a poet never feels useful.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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