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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.
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 looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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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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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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