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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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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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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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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
May Sarton
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
May Sarton
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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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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