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
honesty being-honest jellyfish
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
anxiety littles
Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
garden doors religion
In the garden the door is always open into the holy.
pain wings phoenix
The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
zero long way
It feels a long way up and down from zero.
laughter past doe
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
people looks ruthlessness
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.
winter solitude alive
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.
strength happiness people
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
happiness thinking lasts
I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.
dark age violence
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
fashion what-matters trying
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
grace gardening instruments
Gardening is the instrument of grace.
innocent-person machines faces
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.