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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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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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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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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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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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