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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

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
Passion
Beauty
Words
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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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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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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What can I have that I still want?
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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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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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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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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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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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