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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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
Sense
Horticulture
Back
Gardener
Everything
Gardening
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Proportion
Essentials
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Gives
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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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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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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.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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