Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
May Sarton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Ever
Bases
Nothing
Mines
Take
Mine
Must
Perhaps
Ardent
Great
Share
Richness
Make
Friends
Positively
Love
Another
Permanent
Life
Nature
Basis
More quotes by May Sarton
My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
May Sarton
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
May Sarton
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
May Sarton
About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
May Sarton
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
May Sarton
I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
May Sarton
A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
May Sarton
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton
all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
May Sarton
For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
May Sarton
It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
May Sarton
Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.
May Sarton
We only keep what we lose.
May Sarton
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.
May Sarton
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
May Sarton
The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
May Sarton
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
May Sarton
