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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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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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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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You will always be here with me As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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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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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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It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
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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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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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They are commiting murder who merely live.
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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.
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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
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Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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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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I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
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