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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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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 is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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