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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

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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She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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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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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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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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We only keep what we lose.
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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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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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