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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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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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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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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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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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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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