It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton Acceptance Copy Share Image
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal. — May Sarton Poems Copy Share Image
Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. — May Sarton Authenticity Copy Share Image
It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. — May Sarton Home Copy Share Image
“For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying… — May Sarton Gardening Copy Share Image
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to… — May Sarton Before death Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that old age is not interesting until one gets there, a foreign country with an unknown language to the… — May Sarton Foreign country Copy Share Image
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break… — May Sarton Beginners Copy Share Image
“A bolt that raised her heart to blazing height And made the vertical the very thrust of hope, And found its path… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird… — May Sarton Emotion Copy Share Image
More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any… — May Sarton Children Copy Share Image
For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes.… — May Sarton Creative Copy Share Image
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in… — May Sarton Fear Copy Share Image
It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I imagine life itself as merely a long preparation and waiting, a long darkness of growth toward these adventures of the… — May Sarton Adventure Copy Share Image
“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a… — May Sarton Aspiring writers Copy Share Image
“When I was young and knew Virginia Woolf slightly, I learned something that startled me—that a person may be ultrasensitive and not… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“...Failure cannot be erased. It is built in to a life and helps us grow. Failure cannot be erased, but it can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my “real” life again at last. That is what… — May Sarton Conversations Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything,… — May Sarton Awareness Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Life Copy Share Image
