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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

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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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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a poet never feels useful.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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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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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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