May Sarton Quotes

154 quotes in 1802 categories

• We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear… Air
• You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. Figure
• We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or… Account
• Absence becomes the greatest Presence. Absence
• Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. Age
• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can… All
• The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. Certain
• I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push… Alive
• Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can. Inspirational
• I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. Every Novel
• Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard. Bright
• We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. Believe
• The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of… Backed
• I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. Answer
• Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature. Explained
• About loving, I have little to learn from the young. From
• A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic. Body
• Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe. Breathe
• "How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!" Answered
• Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation Creation

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