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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.

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
World
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Blood
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Energy
Nothing
Vast
Time
Debt

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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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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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When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
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... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.
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Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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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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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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