--- title: "21 Feels Quotes By May Sarton" description: "21 Feels quotes by May Sarton. Plus more from May Sarton and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/may-sarton-897_feels_a-poet-never-feels-useful-2553264_2553264.jpg" --- > [a poet never feels useful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/a-poet-never-feels-useful/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/may-sarton-897_feels_a-poet-never-feels-useful-2553264_2553264.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7bf/may-sarton-897_feel_people-who-cannot-feel-punish-those-who_17986.jpg) > [It feels a long way up and down from zero.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-feels-a-long-way-up-and-down-from-zero/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/may-sarton-897_feels_it-feels-a-long-way-up-and-down-from-zer_384879.jpg) > [when I am working I immediately feel hopeful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/when-i-am-working-i-immediately-feel-hopeful/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fca/may-sarton-897_feels_when-i-am-working-i-immediately-feel-hop_1882856.jpg) > [I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-feel-more-alive-when-i-m-writing-than-i-do-at-any-other-time-except-2/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/may-sarton-897_alive_i-feel-more-alive-when-i-m-writing-than_2625359.jpg) > [It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-is-curious-how-any-making-of-order-makes-one-feel-mentally-ordered/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a68/may-sarton-897_curious_it-is-curious-how-any-making-of-order-ma_2623509.jpg) > [And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/and-i-refuse-to-feel-guilty-about-not-letter-writing-either-there-are/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/893/may-sarton-897_amount_and-i-refuse-to-feel-guilty-about-not-le_1574882.jpg) > [I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-feel-like-an-inadequate-machine-a-machine-that-breaks-down-at/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/861/may-sarton-897_break_i-feel-like-an-inadequate-machine-a-mach_1291809.jpg) > [The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/the-ambience-here-is-order-and-beauty-that-is-what-frightens-me-when/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/may-sarton-897_ambience_the-ambience-here-is-order-and-beauty-th_2742946.jpg) > [I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-want-feelings-to-be-expressed-to-be-open-to-be-natural-not-to-be/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc3/may-sarton-897_emotion_i-want-feelings-to-be-expressed-to-be-op_1976863.jpg) > [I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-feel-often-very-close-to-the-ecstasy-and-anguish-which-lie-at-the/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6a/may-sarton-897_anguish_i-feel-often-very-close-to-the-ecstasy-a_836777.jpg) > [I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-find-that-when-i-have-any-appointment-even-an-afternoon-one-it/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/876/may-sarton-897_afternoon_i-find-that-when-i-have-any-appointment_315230.jpg) > [For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-a-long-time-now-every-meeting-with-another-human-being-has-been/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e28/may-sarton-897_break_for-a-long-time-now-every-meeting-with-a_2704357.jpg) > [I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-feel-happy-to-be-keeping-a-journal-again-i-ve-missed-it-missed/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/846/may-sarton-897_alive_i-feel-happy-to-be-keeping-a-journal-aga_1676932.jpg) > [The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/the-more-our-bodies-fail-us-the-more-naked-and-more-demanding-is-the/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/185/may-sarton-897_ashes_the-more-our-bodies-fail-us-the-more-nak_2536651.jpg) > [...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-feel-more-alive-when-i-m-writing-than-i-do-at-any-other-time-except/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/261/may-sarton-897_alive_i-feel-more-alive-when-i-m-writing-than_2511021.jpg) > [O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/o-cruel-cloudless-space-and-pale-bare-ground-where-the-poor-infant/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e3/may-sarton-897_artifice_o-cruel-cloudless-space-and-pale-bare-gr_224993.jpg) > [Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/once-more-i-realize-that-solitude-is-my-element-and-the-reason-is/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/may-sarton-897_awareness_once-more-i-realize-that-solitude-is-my_1239560.jpg) > [What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/what-frightens-me-about-america-today-is-that-in-the-large-majority/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/may-sarton-897_active_what-frightens-me-about-america-today-is_2498342.jpg) > [Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/here-life-goes-on-even-and-monotonous-on-the-surface-full-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e14/may-sarton-897_crush_here-life-goes-on-even-and-monotonous-on_384940.jpg) > [There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/there-is-no-doubt-that-solitude-is-a-challenge-and-to-maintain/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45c/may-sarton-897_alone-time_there-is-no-doubt-that-solitude-is-a-cha_274100.jpg) ## Other authors on Feels ## 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/feels/may-sarton/#itemlist", "name": "21 Feels Quotes By May Sarton", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", 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