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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

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one. — George Sarton

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward — May Sarton

When I am working I immediately feel hopeful. — May Sarton

Time spent with poets is never wasted. — May Sarton

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space. — George Sarton

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature. — May Sarton

Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton

I am obliged to deal with hundreds of men and to make them live without killing the reader. — George Sarton

KAIROS A unique time in a person's life; an opportunity for change. — May Sarton

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time
except maybe when I'm making love. — May Sarton

Fire is a good companion for the mind ... — May Sarton

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear. — May Sarton

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older. — George Sarton

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become. — May Sarton

Instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion. — 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

What does myself now say to me?
Open the door of Mystery. — 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

It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside. — May Sarton

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. — May Sarton

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. — May Sarton

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn. — May Sarton

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. — 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

Each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. — May Sarton

How slowly one comes to understand anything! — May Sarton

One of the springs of poetry is joy ... — May Sarton

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. — May Sarton

Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing ... — 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

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. — May Sarton

It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person ... — May Sarton

In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates. — May Sarton

People who cannot feel punish those who do. — May Sarton

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it. — May Sarton

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling. — May Sarton

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! — May Sarton

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation. — George Sarton

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ... — May Sarton

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

Science is the most revolutionary force in the world. — George Sarton

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton

Everything in us presses toward decision, even toward the wrong decision, just to be free of the anxiety that precedes any big step in life. — May Sarton

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. — May Sarton

When it comes to the important things one is always alone ... — May Sarton

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. — May Sarton

In the country of pain we are each alone. — May Sarton

No partner in a love relationship ... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. — May Sarton

Gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary. — 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

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. — May Sarton

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. — George 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

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage? — 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

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers. — May Sarton

Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. — May Sarton

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. — May Sarton

Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. — May Sarton

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth. — 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

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. — May Sarton

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility. — George Sarton

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance. — George Sarton

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude. — May Sarton

A poet never feels useful. — 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

True power is given to the vulnerable. — May Sarton

Love is our human miracle. — May Sarton

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic. — May Sarton

And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory. — May Sarton

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. — May Sarton

I hate small talk with a passionate hatred. Why? I suppose because any meeting with another human being is collision for me now. — May Sarton

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. — May Sarton

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. — May Sarton

The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation ... It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental. — May Sarton

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. — May Sarton

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply. — May Sarton

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures. — May Sarton

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. — May Sarton