May Sarton - Love Quotes

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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

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An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.

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Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

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If I can let you go as trees let go
... Lose what I lose to keep what I can keep,
The strong root still alive under the snow,
Love will endure — if I can let you go.

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No partner in a love relationship (whether homo- or heterosexual) should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

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How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

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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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One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?

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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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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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One must always get away to taste experience. One must always escape from people one loves in order to love them. Isn't it queer?

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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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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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