Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton Books Copy Share Image
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I reach and have reached the timeless moment, the pure suspension within time, only through love.” — May Sarton Love Copy Share Image
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation — May Sarton Creation Copy Share Image
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn. — May Sarton 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
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
“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
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
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. — May Sarton Always thinking Copy Share Image
It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you… — May Sarton Alive Copy Share Image
I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a… — 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
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the… — May Sarton Abyss Copy Share Image
“In Texas there’s so much space words have a way Of getting lost in the silence before they’re spoken So people hang… — May Sarton Getting lost Copy Share Image
A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert,… — May Sarton Camels Copy Share Image
I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Innocence Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Alive Copy Share Image
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. — May Sarton Baby Copy Share Image
So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard. — May Sarton Cat Copy Share Image
For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable. — May Sarton Character Copy Share Image
“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that,… — May Sarton Cats Copy Share Image
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help.… — May Sarton Circles Copy Share Image
“I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward… — May Sarton Death Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work… — May Sarton Autumn Copy Share Image
We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.” — May Sarton Copy Share Image
