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Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
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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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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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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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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