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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

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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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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Love is our human miracle.
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We only keep what we lose.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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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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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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What can I have that I still want?
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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