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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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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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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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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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