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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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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 ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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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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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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