I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy. — May Sarton Flower Copy Share Image
When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton Bird Copy Share Image
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the… — May Sarton Adventure Copy Share Image
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through… — May Sarton Demand Copy Share Image
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand. — May Sarton Books Copy Share Image
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist… — May Sarton Art Copy Share Image
I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked… — May Sarton Bears Copy Share Image
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our… — May Sarton Bounds Copy Share Image
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“But when Ellen throws at me that I have never had to struggle I feel like saying, 'Maybe. But I have had… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to… — May Sarton Belief Copy Share Image
In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one… — May Sarton Books Copy Share Image
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.… — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — May Sarton Age Copy Share Image
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root. — May Sarton Bears Copy Share Image
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
