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Love is our human miracle.

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
Humans
Love
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The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
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Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
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It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
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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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I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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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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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
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What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
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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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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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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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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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