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

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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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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a poet never feels useful.
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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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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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