Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. — May Sarton Identity Copy Share Image
Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
“When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the… — May Sarton Grace Copy Share Image
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light… — May Sarton Darkness Copy Share Image
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though… — May Sarton Burden Copy Share Image
“It is not so much trying to keep alive As trying to keep from blowing apart From inner explosions every day.” — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous… — May Sarton Androgynous Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I imagine life itself as merely a long preparation and waiting, a long darkness of growth toward these adventures of the… — May Sarton Adventure Copy Share Image
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in… — May Sarton Fear Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Class Copy Share Image
One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private,… — May Sarton Belief Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Awareness Copy Share Image
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not… — May Sarton Alone time Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We… — May Sarton Crush Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything,… — May Sarton Awareness Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Life Copy Share Image
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call… — May Sarton Anger Copy Share Image
