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
pain thinking joy
Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
letting-go pain fall
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
love inspirational flower
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
giving letters easier
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
thinking long parent
we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
order disorder sacraments
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
order curious feels
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
character writing feelings
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
journey novel journal
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
mountain define-you
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
men differences understanding
I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
good-marriage deals
A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.
loss loses
We only keep what we lose.
loneliness solitude faces
At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.