--- title: "14 Doe Quotes By May Sarton" description: "14 Doe quotes by May Sarton. Plus more from May Sarton and more Doe sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/may-sarton-897_cat_when-addressed-a-gentleman-cat-does-not_242447.jpg" --- > [When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/when-addressed-a-gentleman-cat-does-not-move-a-muscle-he-looks-as-if/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61e/may-sarton-897_cat_when-addressed-a-gentleman-cat-does-not_242447.jpg) > [“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/how-does-one-grow-up-i-asked-a-friend-the-other-day-there-was-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e15/may-sarton-897_doe_how-does-one-grow-up-i-asked-a-friend-th_472816.jpg) > [The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/the-beginner-hugs-his-infant-poem-to-him-and-does-not-want-it-to-grow/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/may-sarton-897_beginners_the-beginner-hugs-his-infant-poem-to-him_1856697.jpg) > [How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/how-does-one-grow-up-i-asked-a-friend-she-answered-by-thinking/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1b/may-sarton-897_doe_how-does-one-grow-up-i-asked-a-friend-sh_2388456.jpg) > [Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/death-does-frame-a-person-and-somehow-it-is-the-good-that-stays/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf3/may-sarton-897_death_death-does-frame-a-person-and-somehow-it_2208878.jpg) > [gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/gardening-is-a-madness-a-folly-that-does-not-go-away-with-age-quite/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d59/may-sarton-897_age_gardening-is-a-madness-a-folly-that-does_2436549.jpg) > [... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-one-does-not-have-wild-dreams-of-achievement-there-is-no-spur-even/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18c/may-sarton-897_achievement_if-one-does-not-have-wild-dreams-of-achi_2764973.jpg) > [Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/does-one-come-to-enjoy-even-the-hardships-that-help-make-one-the/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9cf/may-sarton-897_doe_does-one-come-to-enjoy-even-the-hardship_1376272.jpg) > [One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/one-has-only-to-set-a-loved-human-being-against-the-fact-that-we-are/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e7/may-sarton-897_doe_one-has-only-to-set-a-loved-human-being_2355273.jpg) > [One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/one-does-not-find-oneself-by-pursuing-one-s-self-but-on-the-contrary/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b5/may-sarton-897_being-yourself_one-does-not-find-oneself-by-pursuing-on_1584086.jpg) > [And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief /…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/and-one-cold-starry-night-whatever-your-belief-the-phoenix-will-take/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2e/may-sarton-897_belief_and-one-cold-starry-night-whatever-your_292026.jpg) > [Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/does-anything-in-nature-despair-except-man-an-animal-with-a-foot/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/may-sarton-897_animal_does-anything-in-nature-despair-except-m_371632.jpg) > [A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/a-man-with-a-talent-does-what-is-expected-of-him-makes-his-way/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/803/may-sarton-897_black_a-man-with-a-talent-does-what-is-expecte_1610473.jpg) > [It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-is-only-when-we-can-believe-that-we-are-creating-the-soul-that/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23e/may-sarton-897_believe_it-is-only-when-we-can-believe-that-we-a_2433675.jpg) ## Other authors on Doe ## More by May Sarton > [“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-felt-pain-like-an-assault-the-old-pain-again-when-the-world-thrusts/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [Most people have to talk so they won't hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/most-people-have-to-talk-so-they-won-t-hear/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [People who cannot feel punish those who do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/people-who-cannot-feel-punish-those-who-do/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/this-suspension-of-one-s-own-reality-this-being-entirely-alone-in-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/one-must-think-like-a-hero-to-behave-like-a-merely-decent-human-being/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/real-joy-is-becoming-exceedingly-rare-among-artists-of-any-kind-and-i/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-to-be-desperate-is-to-discover-strength-we-die-of-comfort-and-by/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-see-you-with-that-shell-held-to-your-sensitive-abstracted-ear/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/there-is-a-wilder-solitude-in-winter-when-every-sense-is-pricked/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-long-for-the-bulbs-to-arrive-for-the-early-autumn-chores-are/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/why-is-it-that-people-who-cannot-show-feeling-presume-that-that-is-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/innocence-is-not-pure-so-much-as-pleased-always-expectant-bright-eyed/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-have-written-every-poem-every-novel-for-the-same-purpose-to-find/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-art-is-order-but-it-is-born-out-of-the-chaos-of-life/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) > [all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/all-great-people-are-humble-because-great-people-have-great-work-and/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doe/may-sarton/#itemlist", "name": "14 Doe Quotes By May Sarton", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. 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