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
dream hero thinking
... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
safety soul littles
It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.
ambition desire made
What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.
acceptance balance asking
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
healing love-is
... love is healing, even rootless love.
understanding littles before-death
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
wholeness
Women's work is always toward wholeness.
happens
Your poems will happen when no one is there.
danger dangerous
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
baby thinking months
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
death failure loss
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
flower garden greedy
I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
opposites giving want
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
love relationship giving-up
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.