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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

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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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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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 sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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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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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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