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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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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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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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We only keep what we lose.
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