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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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