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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Light
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Still
Music
Thundered
Mind
Triumphed
Fulfill
Revealed
Dark

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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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