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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
Absence
Presence
Becomes
Greatest

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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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a poet never feels useful.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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