Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. — May Sarton Contentment Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Comfort Copy Share Image
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. — May Sarton Arrival Copy Share Image
Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton Chance Copy Share Image
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with… — May Sarton Artist Copy Share Image
It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing… — May Sarton Anguish Copy Share Image
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or… — May Sarton Being yourself Copy Share Image
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Class Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed… — May Sarton Ashtrays Copy Share Image
If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them… — May Sarton Flower Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from… — May Sarton Balance Copy Share Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to… — May Sarton Acts of love Copy Share Image
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief /… — May Sarton Belief Copy Share Image
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament… — May Sarton Alive Copy Share Image
“Now I become myself. It's taken Time, may years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run… — May Sarton Love Copy Share Image
We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age we grow… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
“The value of solitude—one of its values—is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there… — May Sarton Depression Copy Share Image
“Alone one is never lonely: the spirit adventures, waking In a quiet garden, in a cool house, abiding single there; The spirit… — May Sarton Religion Copy Share Image
If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an… — May Sarton Balance Copy Share Image
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call… — May Sarton Anger Copy Share Image
