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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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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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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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