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... love is healing, even rootless love.

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
Rootless
Healing
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Love

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We only keep what we lose.
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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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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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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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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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