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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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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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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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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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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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a poet never feels useful.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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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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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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