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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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Thundered
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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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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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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