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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
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May Eleanor Sarton
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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 write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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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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“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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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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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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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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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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