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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

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
Anna
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Nobody
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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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.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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