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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

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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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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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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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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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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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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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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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.
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What can I have that I still want?
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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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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