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
ocean dark blue
It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music.
music flower silence
Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
hard-work expectations smallest
How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time...
art children book
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?
too-much haste expecting
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
lonely loneliness being-alone
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
letting-go pain order
Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
dark light mind
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
country writing wonder
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.
feelings cost may
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
writing fifteen enough
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
reading flower feelings
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
silence lines ifs
Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.
courage hero thinking
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.