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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
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May Eleanor Sarton
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
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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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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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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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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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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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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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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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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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It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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