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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
Sifted
Abstraction
Snow
Light

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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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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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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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a poet never feels useful.
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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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