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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
— May Sarton
When I am working I immediately feel hopeful.
— May Sarton
Time spent with poets is never wasted.
— May Sarton
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other timeexcept maybe when I'm making love. — May Sarton
Fire is a good companion for the mind ...
— May Sarton
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
— May Sarton
So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
— May Sarton
Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
— May Sarton
We only keep what we lose.
— May Sarton
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
— May Sarton
I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
— May Sarton
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
— May Sarton
Fighting dragons is my holy joy.
— May Sarton
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
— May Sarton
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
— May Sarton
I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.
— May Sarton
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
— May Sarton
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
— May Sarton
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
— May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
— May Sarton
How slowly one comes to understand anything!
— May Sarton
One of the springs of poetry is joy ...
— May Sarton
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
— May Sarton
But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.
— May Sarton
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live ...
— May Sarton
Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
— May Sarton
For only the ill are well,Only the hunted, free — May Sarton
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The reasons for depression are not so interesting as the way one handles it, simply to stay alive.
— May Sarton
We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
— May Sarton
In the country of pain we are each alone.
— May Sarton
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
— May Sarton
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
— May Sarton
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
— May Sarton
For after all we make our faces as we go along...
— May Sarton
We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...
— May Sarton
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
— May Sarton
I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.
— May Sarton
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Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
— May Sarton
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
— May Sarton
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
— May Sarton
Love is our human miracle.
— May Sarton
True power is given to the vulnerable.
— May Sarton
It is never a waste of time to be outdoors, and never a waste of time to rest, even for a few hours.
— May Sarton
A poet never feels useful.
— May Sarton
People who cannot feel punish those who do.
— May Sarton