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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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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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Love is our human miracle.
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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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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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