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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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We only keep what we lose.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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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 takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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What can I have that I still want?
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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