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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
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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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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
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The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
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You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
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We only keep what we lose.
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
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I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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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 suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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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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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
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