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
talking people joy
People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!
memorable wife lasts
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
love privilege murder
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
love real giving
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
mistake men order
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
country pain
In the country of pain we are each alone.
math science order
I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
writing able world
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
unimportant
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
pain mean doors
The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
solitude salt flavor
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
self innocence pure
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
joy world hold-fast
So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.
expression masculine-and-feminine personality
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.