May Sarton Quotes

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• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
• I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
• True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
• What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
• When addressed, a Gentleman Cat does not move a muscle. He looks as if he hasn't heard.
• Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
• He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very…
• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
• Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will…
• Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
• In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle,…
• Excellence costs a great deal.
• People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!
• When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
• When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you…
• There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.
• Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
• It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

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