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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Poet
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May Eleanor Sarton
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Greatest
Absence
Presence

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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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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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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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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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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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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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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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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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