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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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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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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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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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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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