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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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Energy
Nothing
Vast
Time
Debt
World
Fame
Paid
Blood

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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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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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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
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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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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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We only keep what we lose.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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