May Sarton
May Sarton
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth3 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
May Sarton quotes about
novel felt written
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something.
spring joy poetry-is
one of the springs of poetry is joy ...
energy literature formal
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
speech equilibrium
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...
feelings balance shifting
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
american-poet conscious creation order pure relieved
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.