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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

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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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, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Your poems will happen when no one is there.
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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
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If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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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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What can I have that I still want?
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A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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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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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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We only keep what we lose.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems our poems choose us.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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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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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
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