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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

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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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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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a poet never feels useful.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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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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