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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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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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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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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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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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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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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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Love is our human miracle.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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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 am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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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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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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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