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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

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
Disillusion
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Intimacy
Instant
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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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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
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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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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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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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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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