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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
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Love
Rootless
Healing

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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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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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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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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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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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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant that is what matters.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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What can I have that I still want?
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
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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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