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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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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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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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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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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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