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Your poems will happen when no one is there.

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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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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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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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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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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a poet never feels useful.
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We only keep what we lose.
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It takes a long time for words to become thought.
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Love is our human miracle.
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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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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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