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From Quotes by May Sarton
- In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle,…
- The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the…
- About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
- It feels a long way up and down from zero.
- The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as…
- People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
- Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.
- 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…
- In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes,…
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