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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

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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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated all is concentrated within.
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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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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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