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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

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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Mother
Lays
Breathe
Grief
Inside

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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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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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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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a poet never feels useful.
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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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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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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