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
age aging
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
friendship losing-friends stuff
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
loneliness solitude one-thing
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
poverty rich nothingness
Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
innocent-person machines faces
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
past years wrinkles
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
talking people joy
People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!
true-power vulnerable given
True power is given to the vulnerable.
men thinking touching
I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
excellence cost deals
Excellence costs a great deal.
death flower garden
In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
discipline feelings rewards
When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.
dark age violence
It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.
inspiring children play
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.