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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

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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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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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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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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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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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
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