Good morning Quote by May Sarton

“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

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

— May Sarton

People who cannot feel punish those who do.

— May Sarton

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

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

— May Sarton

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

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

— May Sarton

“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

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

— May Sarton

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

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

— May Sarton

Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed

— May Sarton