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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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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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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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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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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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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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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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