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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

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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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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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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