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.
May Sarton
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
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
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
May Sarton
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
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
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Type:
Author
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1995
Nationality:
American |
