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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.

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
Explosive
Explosives
Burn
Quick
Friendship
Though
Friends
Stuff

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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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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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