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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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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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What can I have that I still want?
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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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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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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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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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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