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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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Gardening
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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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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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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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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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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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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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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