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