May Sarton Quotes

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• There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
• Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
• The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the…
• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's…
• In the country of pain we are each alone.
• Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
• I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines…
• I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
• In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
• Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
• One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not…
• I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts…
• We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
• The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to…
• I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and…
• The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an…
• Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
• We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
• Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

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