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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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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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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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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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