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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

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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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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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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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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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 must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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We only keep what we lose.
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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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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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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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