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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
Beauty
Though
Art
True
Seems
Seeds
Destruction
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Passion

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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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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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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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... love is healing, even rootless love.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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