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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

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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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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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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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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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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Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
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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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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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