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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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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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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 tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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