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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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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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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 only keep what we lose.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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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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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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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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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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