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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

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
Abstraction
Snow
Light
Sifted

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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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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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Time unbounded is hard to handle.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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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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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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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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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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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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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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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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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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