It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton Chance Copy Share Image
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton Education Copy Share Image
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“My anger, because I am old, is considered a sign of madness or senility. Is this not cruel? Are we to be… — May Sarton Anger Copy Share Image
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be. — May Sarton Bounds Copy Share Image
Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after… — May Sarton Awareness Copy Share Image
I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at… — May Sarton Discoveries Copy Share Image
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's -… — May Sarton Experience 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… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“It is hope-giving to consider the young, and it is also hope-giving to consider growth as a constant. Here I am at… — May Sarton Flower Copy Share Image
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. — May Sarton Education Copy Share Image
People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer! — May Sarton Happiness Copy Share Image
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. — May Sarton Home Copy Share Image
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy. — May Sarton Flower Copy Share Image
When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton Poems Copy Share Image
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton Acceptance Copy Share Image
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. — May Sarton Authenticity Copy Share Image
“...when the petals fall Say it is beautiful and good, say it is well” — May Sarton Beauty Copy Share Image
