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
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation. — May Sarton Ambition Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! — May Sarton Fear 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
“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
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. — May Sarton Gestalt Copy Share Image
Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and… — May Sarton Ardent Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light… — May Sarton Light Copy Share Image
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance. — May Sarton Action Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the… — May Sarton Balance Copy Share Image
“There were moments when Hilary saw life as tending always towards chaos, when it seemed that all one could be asked was… — May Sarton Chaos Copy Share Image
“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep… — May Sarton Death Copy Share Image
“When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them… — May Sarton Flower Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed… — May Sarton Ashtrays Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from… — May Sarton Balance Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Alone one is never lonely: the spirit adventures, waking In a quiet garden, in a cool house, abiding single there; The spirit… — May Sarton Religion Copy Share Image
“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there… — May Sarton Depression Copy Share Image
“When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me—that a person may be ultrasensitive and not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my “real” life again at last. That is what… — May Sarton Conversations Copy Share Image
“...Failure cannot be erased. It is built in to a life and helps us grow. Failure cannot be erased, but it can… — May Sarton 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
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