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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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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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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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