May Sarton
May Sarton
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth3 May 1912
CountryUnited States of America
spring joy poetry-is
one of the springs of poetry is joy ...
energy literature formal
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
speech equilibrium
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...
believe feelings analysis
For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.
angel break-through singing
For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
angel way answers
For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.
age elements prove
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.
feelings balance shifting
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
pigeons flight destination
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.
balance action compromise
In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
hurt two people
It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.
growing-up hug beginners
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.
body sacred forget
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.
bondage
Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?