--- title: "20 Way Quotes By May Sarton" description: "20 Way quotes by May Sarton. Plus more from May Sarton and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76e/may-sarton-897_crime_routine-is-not-a-prison-but-the-way-to-f_2697387.jpg" --- > [Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/routine-is-not-a-prison-but-the-way-to-freedom-from-time/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76e/may-sarton-897_crime_routine-is-not-a-prison-but-the-way-to-f_2697387.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) > [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) > [Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/routine-is-not-a-prison-but-the-way-into-freedom-from-time/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/936/may-sarton-897_crime_routine-is-not-a-prison-but-the-way-into_1684741.jpg) > [poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/poetry-is-first-of-all-a-way-of-life-and-only-secondarily-a-way-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba4/may-sarton-897_firsts_poetry-is-first-of-all-a-way-of-life-and_3163772.jpg) > [I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-see-a-certain-order-in-the-universe-and-math-is-one-way-of-making/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e48/may-sarton-897_certain_i-see-a-certain-order-in-the-universe-an_1910370.jpg) > [The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/the-only-way-through-pain-is-to-absorb-probe-understand-exactly-what/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/may-sarton-897_chance_the-only-way-through-pain-is-to-absorb-p_1732012.jpg) > [Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/whatever-peace-i-know-rests-in-the-natural-world-in-feeling-myself-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/954/may-sarton-897_feeling_whatever-peace-i-know-rests-in-the-natur_2948216.jpg) > [I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-cannot-understand-why-poetry-is-not-taught-at-schools-as-a-way-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/may-sarton-897_essentials_i-cannot-understand-why-poetry-is-not-ta_1316372.jpg) > [It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/it-is-dangerous-it-seems-to-me-for-a-civilization-when-there-is-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b5/may-sarton-897_abyss_it-is-dangerous-it-seems-to-me-for-a-civ_624133.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) > [I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-would-like-to-believe-when-i-die-that-i-have-given-myself-away-like/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1c/may-sarton-897_believe_i-would-like-to-believe-when-i-die-that_785894.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) > [We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/we-are-all-whether-we-know-it-or-not-in-search-of-a-way-to-enrich-to/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afd/may-sarton-897_before-death_we-are-all-whether-we-know-it-or-not-in_1557296.jpg) > [Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/joy-happiness-we-do-not-question-they-are-beyond-question-maybe-a/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/may-sarton-897_causes_joy-happiness-we-do-not-question-they-ar_1482650.jpg) > [When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/when-you-change-the-way-you-look-at-a-thing-the-thing-itself-changes/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5da/may-sarton-897_discipline_when-you-change-the-way-you-look-at-a-th_206066.jpg) > [I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-have-sometimes-wondered-also-whether-in-people-like-me-who-come-to/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cb/may-sarton-897_anger_i-have-sometimes-wondered-also-whether-i_2174895.jpg) > [The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/the-woman-who-needs-to-create-works-of-art-is-born-with-a-kind-of/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/may-sarton-897_art_the-woman-who-needs-to-create-works-of-a_2799043.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) > [I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-loved-them-all-the-way-one-loves-at-any-age-if-it-s-real-at-all/) [May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/304/may-sarton-897_age_i-loved-them-all-the-way-one-loves-at-an_2792291.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/may-sarton/#itemlist", "name": "20 Way Quotes By May Sarton", "numberOfItems": 20, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", 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