« All Out Quotes · May Sarton's Page
Out Quotes by May Sarton
- When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.
- A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's…
- I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts…
- Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
- I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can…
- I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
- I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
- When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they…
- It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out…
- For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.
- I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played…
- May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the…
- Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy…
- 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…
- Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain.…
More Out Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria