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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
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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Destruction
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I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
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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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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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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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
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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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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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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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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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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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