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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

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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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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 am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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