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
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.
pain intimate-relationships self
When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.
love privilege murder
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
memorable wife lasts
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
revision creation process
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation
powerful children entrepreneur
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
understanding facts essentials
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
being-yourself discipline doe
One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
believe creating soul
It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.