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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.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Come
Done
Suppose
Long
Parents
Never
Dead
Thinking
Parent
Alive
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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Love is our human miracle.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
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We only keep what we lose.
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