Quote by May Sarton Download Open image ““A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.”” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Oh, how I've envied the lives of those who could spend life sitting down. A place to sit, a place to sit! I'd lament,… — Wolfgang Hilbig Copy Share Image
“You can't get sentimental about houses. Or bodies. They're just, I don't know, the Tupperware of the soul.” — Eileen Pollack 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 the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
