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
loneliness solitude faces
At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.
order curious feels
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
failure artist growing
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 ...
journey novel journal
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
mountain define-you
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
anger people safety
I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!
loss loses
We only keep what we lose.
people insensitivity feels
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
unexpected-gifts unexpected life-is
life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
gardening going-away age
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
friendship bears sometimes
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.
doe persons
Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.
flower giving romance
I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.
people experience helping
The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.