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What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

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Healing, Grieving, People

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Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

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Life, Music, Flower

May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.67, Open Road Media

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It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.

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Ocean, Dark, Blue

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Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

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Letting Go, Pain, Order

May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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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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Age, Assuming, Easy

May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

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It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

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Safety, Soul, Littles

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.120, Open Road Media

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When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

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Pet, Deny, Ifs

May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.138, Open Road Media

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Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

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Sad, Depression, Illumination

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

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Peace, Feelings, World

May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

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Love, Relationship, Giving Up

May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.96, Open Road Media

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Love is our human miracle.

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Love Is, Miracle, Humans

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For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

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Comfort, Conflict, Desperate

May Sarton (2014). “Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine: Poems Selected and New”, p.101, Open Road Media

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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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Real, Believe, Struggle

May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.11, Open Road Media

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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.

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Body, Sacred, Forget

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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.

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Want, Recognition, Terror

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

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Past, Space, Soul

May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

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How slowly one comes to understand anything!

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May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.13, Open Road Media

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When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

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Discipline, Feelings, Looks

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At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

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Real, Believe, Holding Back

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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It takes a long time for words to become thought.

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Long, Long Time

May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.57, Open Road Media

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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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Strength, Sometimes, Source

May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.46, Open Road Media

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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People, Speakers

May Sarton (2014). “A Reckoning: A Novel”, p.127, Open Road Media

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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

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Loss, Self, Atmosphere

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.53, Open Road Media

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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

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Feelings, Cost, May

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

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Intimacy, Instant, Disillusion

May Sarton (2014). “A World of Light: Portraits and Celebrations”, p.37, Open Road Media

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Born: May 3, 1912
Died: July 16, 1995
Occupation: Poet
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