“unless we recognize the radical nature of Christianity, which means shedding the imperatives of the secular world and taking with extreme seriousness… — May Sarton Christianity Copy Share Image
When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the… — May Sarton Discipline Copy Share Image
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the… — May Sarton Age 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 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
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 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
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
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 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
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief /… — May Sarton Belief 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
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
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
“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
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
