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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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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 body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May Sarton