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title: "12 Long Quotes By May Sarton"
description: "12 Long quotes by May Sarton. Plus more from May Sarton and more Long sayings from other authors."
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> [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)

> [in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/in-the-very-long-run-any-success-devours-and-perhaps-also-corrupts/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/740/may-sarton-897_corrupts_in-the-very-long-run-any-success-devours_825998.jpg)

> [It takes a long time for words to become thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-takes-a-long-time-for-words-to-become-thought/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ef/may-sarton-897_language_it-takes-a-long-time-for-words-to-become_1544120.jpg)

> [You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/you-will-always-be-here-with-me-as-long-as-i-live-a-towering-figure/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/may-sarton-897_figures_you-will-always-be-here-with-me-as-long_697493.jpg)

> [we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/we-are-never-done-with-thinking-about-our-parents-i-suppose-and-come/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/716/may-sarton-897_alive_we-are-never-done-with-thinking-about-ou_2298316.jpg)

> [I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work…](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/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/may-sarton-897_autumn_i-long-for-the-bulbs-to-arrive-for-the-e_143198.jpg)

> [I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-believe-that-children-long-for-form-just-as-grownups-do-and-that-it/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2e/may-sarton-897_believe_i-believe-that-children-long-for-form-ju_200711.jpg)

> [Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/keep-busy-with-survival-imitate-the-trees-learn-to-lose-in-order-to/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/may-sarton-897_busy_keep-busy-with-survival-imitate-the-tree_674223.jpg)

> [I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-am-furious-at-all-the-letters-to-answer-when-all-i-want-to-do-is/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cc/may-sarton-897_answers_i-am-furious-at-all-the-letters-to-answe_208834.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)

> [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/)

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> [I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-think-of-the-trees-and-how-simply-they-let-go-let-fall-the-riches/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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## Other authors on Long

## 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/)

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