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The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.
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There are some griefs so loud
They could bring down the sky,
And there are griefs so still
None knows how deep they lie.
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Love, we still think, many of us, is for the young. But what do they really know about it? It is hard for them to differentiate between sexual passion and love itself, for instance.
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I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
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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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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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In Texas the lid blew off the sky a long time ago
So there's nothing to keep the wind from blowing
And it blows all the time.
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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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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Beaming like a lesser god,
He bounced upon the earth he trod.
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
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It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss between 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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In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
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Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate.
Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight,
But laughter we can never over-rate.
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One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
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You can't break the mould and also be consoled for breaking it, old fool!
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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
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Flowers and plants are silence presences; they nourish every sense except the ear.
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I am not ready to die,
But I am learning to trust death
As I have trusted life.
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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him — one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.
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I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
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Solitude swells the inner space
Like a balloon.
We are wafted hither and thither
On the air currents.
How to land it?
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
May Sarton
Born:
May 3, 1912
Died:
July 16, 1995
(aged 83)
Bio:
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist.
Known for:
Journal of a Solitude (1973)
Plant Dreaming Deep (1968)
At Seventy (1984)
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)
As we are now (1973)
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