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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
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Humans
Love

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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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He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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What can I have that I still want?
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Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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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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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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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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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
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