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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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