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
gardening going-away age
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
age aging
Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.
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.
real inspiration age
I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
self-confidence age weakness
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
frustration age growing
Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.
light age ascent
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
age elements prove
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
age innocence moments
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
country interesting age
The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.
age assuming easy
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
essential himself love partner scholars-and-scholarship
No partner in a love relationship...should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
hour madly single stand stop time
Now there is time and time is young.O, in this single hour I liveAll of myself and do not move.I, the pursued, who madly ran,Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!
depression illumination demand
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.