May Sarton Quote

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?


Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (1965)


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...

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...

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...

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...