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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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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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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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a poet never feels useful.
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