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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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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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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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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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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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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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