May Sarton Quotes
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
(1912 - 1995)
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
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Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
[One Day]
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Excellence costs a great deal.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
[Self Confidence]
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
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Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.
[Peace]
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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 the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
[Positive]
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
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