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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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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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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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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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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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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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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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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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