All May Sarton Quotes
- One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a… All
- I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… Age
- I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love. Alive
- Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. Anyone
- I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve,… All
- In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes,… All
- For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to… Alive
- At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come… Alienating
- It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond… Acute
- Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn. Anna
- A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. Death
- Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and… All
- The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable Dilemma
- For after all we make our faces as we go along... All
- Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. Compared
- Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it. Age
- There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for… Alone
- Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. Anyone
- Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers. Birth
- It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. Always Comes