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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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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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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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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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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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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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