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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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... 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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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What can I have that I still want?
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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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