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
men america giving
What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.
giving able wealth
Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.
holiday giving looks
A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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.
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.
flower giving romance
I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.
opposites giving want
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
love relationship giving-up
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
garden giving proportion
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
giving letters easier
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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.
beauty order meditation
The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?