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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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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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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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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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