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
pigeons flight destination
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
teaching way needs
Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.
trying tables clear
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.
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.
absence
Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
beautiful half alive
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
american-poet birth darkness faithful gardeners help
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
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.