“And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that… — May Sarton Feminism Copy Share Image
“Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings. (Nothing more startling… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few… — May Sarton Change Copy Share Image
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were… — May Sarton Angel Copy Share Image
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams. — May Sarton Dream Copy Share Image
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work. — May Sarton Food Copy Share Image
If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet,… — May Sarton Cold Copy Share Image
“Solitude itself is a way of waiting for the inaudible and the invisible to make itself felt. And that is why solitude… — May Sarton Presence Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one… — May Sarton Books Copy Share Image
“Laura felt now completely detached from her body. It was, she considered, simply a piece of machinery that was running down. But… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and,… — May Sarton Harm Copy Share Image
“Alive to the loving past She conjures her own. Nothing is wholly lost— Sun on the stone. And lilacs in their splendor… — May Sarton Grief Copy Share Image
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay… — May Sarton Drunk Copy Share Image
My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to… — May Sarton Compassion Copy Share Image
“Here in the United States we appear to be becoming more and more a country devoted to amenities for the rich, more… — May Sarton Money Copy Share Image
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. — May Sarton Children Copy Share Image
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Happy the man who can long roaming reap, Like old Ulysses when he shaped his course Homeward at last toward the native… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation…It is dangerous to forget the… — May Sarton Body Copy Share Image
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate. — May Sarton Hate Copy Share Image
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let… — May Sarton Dark Copy Share Image
At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to… — May Sarton Alive Copy Share Image
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