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
beautiful half alive
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
light age ascent
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
absence
Absence becomes the greatest Presence.
grief writing thinking
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.
long memorial figures
You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.
mistake men order
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.
war moving power
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
love real giving
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
life solitude breathe
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
body would-be routine
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
littles youth young
About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
miracle miraculous
Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
book answers born
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
giving inward flow
The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.