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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!
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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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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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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We only keep what we lose.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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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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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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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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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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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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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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