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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

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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Anywhere

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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
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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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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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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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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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