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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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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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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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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.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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