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Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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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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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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