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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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More quotes by May Sarton
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
May Sarton
It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
May Sarton
You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
May Sarton
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.
May Sarton
Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.
May Sarton
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
May Sarton
I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
May Sarton
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
May Sarton
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
May Sarton
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
May Sarton
For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
May Sarton
We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.
May Sarton
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.
May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
May Sarton
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
May Sarton
