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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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We only keep what we lose.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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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 am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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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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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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