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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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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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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 value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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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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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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.
May Sarton
