--- title: "30 Ifs Quotes By May Sarton" description: "30 Ifs quotes by May Sarton. Plus more from May Sarton and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/may-sarton-897_between-the-lines_read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-t_2597708.jpg" --- > [Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-the-silence-if-you-can/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/may-sarton-897_between-the-lines_read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-t_2597708.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) > [When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/when-we-admit-our-vulnerability-we-include-others-if-we-deny-it-we/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e81/may-sarton-897_deny_when-we-admit-our-vulnerability-we-inclu_1429810.jpg) > [Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/try-making-a-poem-as-if-it-were-a-table-clear-and-solid-standing/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/may-sarton-897_clear_try-making-a-poem-as-if-it-were-a-table_1939206.jpg) > [Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/poetry-has-a-way-of-teaching-one-what-one-needs-to-know-if-one-is/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/826/may-sarton-897_education_poetry-has-a-way-of-teaching-one-what-on_2894951.jpg) > [We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/we-are-able-to-laugh-when-we-achieve-detachment-if-only-for-a-moment/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf1/may-sarton-897_able_we-are-able-to-laugh-when-we-achieve-det_2138483.jpg) > [If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-art-is-not-to-be-life-enhancing-what-is-it-to-be/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/may-sarton-897_art_if-art-is-not-to-be-life-enhancing-what_2793287.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) > [For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-me-a-true-poem-is-on-the-way-when-i-begin-to-be-haunted-when-it/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7a/may-sarton-897_angel_for-me-a-true-poem-is-on-the-way-when-i_530567.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) > [It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-looks-as-if-i-were-meant-to-be-alone-and-that-any-hope-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d09/may-sarton-897_acquire_it-looks-as-if-i-were-meant-to-be-alone_1487233.jpg) > [I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-think-that-passion-if-really-intense-is-always-destructive-if-not/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c6/may-sarton-897_destructive_i-think-that-passion-if-really-intense-i_928950.jpg) > [Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/sometimes-one-has-simply-to-endure-a-period-of-depression-for-what-it/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb8/may-sarton-897_demand_sometimes-one-has-simply-to-endure-a-per_2004293.jpg) > [Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/failure-would-only-be-if-you-had-somewhere-stopped-growing-as-far-as/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8b/may-sarton-897_art_failure-would-only-be-if-you-had-somewhe_2714456.jpg) > [If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-i-were-to-choose-one-single-thing-that-that-would-restore-paris-to/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/may-sarton-897_cold_if-i-were-to-choose-one-single-thing-tha_2406118.jpg) > [I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-sometimes-think-men-don-t-hear-very-well-if-i-take-your-meaning-to/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/may-sarton-897_everlasting_i-sometimes-think-men-don-t-hear-very-we_2979186.jpg) > [Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/am-i-too-old-perhaps-ever-to-take-in-another-s-life-to-share-with/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/may-sarton-897_ardent_am-i-too-old-perhaps-ever-to-take-in-ano_1475714.jpg) > [This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ff/may-sarton-897_cities_this-suspension-of-one-s-own-reality-thi_44951.jpg) > [over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/over-and-over-again-i-am-struck-by-the-wordiness-of-modern-poetry-as/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ac/may-sarton-897_divorced_over-and-over-again-i-am-struck-by-the-w_1725766.jpg) > [If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-art-is-not-to-be-life-enhancing-what-is-it-to-be-half-the-world-is/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e68/may-sarton-897_art_if-art-is-not-to-be-life-enhancing-what_1640940.jpg) > [If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-we-are-to-understand-the-human-condition-and-if-we-are-to-accept/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/may-sarton-897_accepting_if-we-are-to-understand-the-human-condit_1535415.jpg) > [There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/there-were-moments-when-it-seemed-that-all-one-could-be-asked-was/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd5/may-sarton-897_ashtrays_there-were-moments-when-it-seemed-that-a_1599573.jpg) > [If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/if-one-is-the-kind-of-creature-i-am-and-wants-to-do-the-kind-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b21/may-sarton-897_balance_if-one-is-the-kind-of-creature-i-am-and_901841.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) > [I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-live-alone-perhaps-for-no-good-reason-for-the-reason-that-i-am-an/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71f/may-sarton-897_alive_i-live-alone-perhaps-for-no-good-reason_356005.jpg) > [We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/we-saw-the-strong-trees-struggle-and-their-plumes-do-down-the-poplar/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ca/may-sarton-897_air_we-saw-the-strong-trees-struggle-and-the_2688230.jpg) > [We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/we-have-to-make-myths-of-our-lives-the-point-being-that-if-we-do-then/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/may-sarton-897_accounts_we-have-to-make-myths-of-our-lives-the-p_1963770.jpg) > [One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/one-must-believe-that-private-dilemmas-are-if-deeply-examined/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/may-sarton-897_belief_one-must-believe-that-private-dilemmas-a_1959192.jpg) > [For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/for-of-course-one-is-never-safe-when-in-love-growth-is-demanding-and/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36a/may-sarton-897_atmosphere_for-of-course-one-is-never-safe-when-in_2226920.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## 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/ifs/may-sarton/#itemlist", "name": "30 Ifs Quotes By May Sarton", "numberOfItems": 30, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "May Sarton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-the-silence-if-you-can/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/may-sarton-897_between-the-lines_read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-t_2597708.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/may-sarton-897_between-the-lines_read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-t_2597708.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/may-sarton-897_between-the-lines_read-between-the-lines-then-meet-me-in-t_2597708.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.” — May Sarton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. 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