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May Sarton Quotes

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It’s not weird if you feel deeply Picture Quote #1

Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another’s life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing! Picture Quote #1

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 out sexually or not Picture Quote #1

It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness? Picture Quote #1

You can’t plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I’m inspired Picture Quote #1

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else Picture Quote #1

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Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? Picture Quote #1

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves Picture Quote #1

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death Picture Quote #1

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words Picture Quote #1

The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people Picture Quote #1

I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal Picture Quote #1

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The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing Picture Quote #1

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing Picture Quote #1

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems.... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there Picture Quote #1

Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning’s work Picture Quote #1

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time Picture Quote #1

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy Picture Quote #1

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I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials Picture Quote #1

I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable Picture Quote #1

Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary Picture Quote #1

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give Picture Quote #1

All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams Picture Quote #1

Do I think there’s life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death Picture Quote #1

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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival Picture Quote #1

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation Picture Quote #1

We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive Picture Quote #1

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people Picture Quote #1

Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing Picture Quote #1

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever Picture Quote #1

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I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It’s not weird if you feel deeply (May Sarton Quotes) Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another’s life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing! (May Sarton Quotes) 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 out sexually or not (May Sarton Quotes) It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness? (May Sarton Quotes) You can’t plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I’m inspired (May Sarton Quotes) We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else (May Sarton Quotes) Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? (May Sarton Quotes) People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves (May Sarton Quotes) We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death (May Sarton Quotes) I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words (May Sarton Quotes) The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people (May Sarton Quotes) I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal (May Sarton Quotes) The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing (May Sarton Quotes) Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing (May Sarton Quotes) I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems.... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there (May Sarton Quotes) Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning’s work (May Sarton Quotes) So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time (May Sarton Quotes) I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy (May Sarton Quotes) I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials (May Sarton Quotes) I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable (May Sarton Quotes) Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary (May Sarton Quotes) Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give (May Sarton Quotes) All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams (May Sarton Quotes) Do I think there’s life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death (May Sarton Quotes) In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival (May Sarton Quotes) My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation (May Sarton Quotes) We are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive (May Sarton Quotes) I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people (May Sarton Quotes) Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing (May Sarton Quotes) One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever (May Sarton Quotes)

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