May Sarton Quotes
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May Sarton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking.
Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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.
So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
When grace is given it comes to us as joy, maybe, but it can also be earned, I am convinced, through the rigorous examination of the sources of pain.
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
Where music thundered let the mind be still,
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.
There is only one real deprivation ... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
In the end what kills is not agony (for agony at least asks something of the soul) but everyday life.
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
I know that I myself have felt that prickling of the scalp that Emily Dickinson tells us is the sign of recognition before a true poem.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.
No partner in a love relationship ... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ...