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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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May Eleanor Sarton
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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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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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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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Love is our human miracle.
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