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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.
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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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
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The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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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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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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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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