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It feels a long way up and down from zero.

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
Zero
Feels
Long
Way

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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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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 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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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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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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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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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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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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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