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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

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Certain
Flower
Change
Poetry
Music
Silence
Nothing
Joy
Thing
Morning
Darting
Always
Age
Joys
Life
Known
Flowers
Light
Evening

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a poet never feels useful.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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