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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
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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We only keep what we lose.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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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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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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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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