Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.
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
Song
Grief
Phoenix
Night
Sea
Seas
Doe
Neither
Thrilling
Young
Cold
Waves
Take
Stars
Flight
Belief
Wave
Dies
Sky
Whatever
Sing
Starry
More quotes by May Sarton
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.
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
Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
May Sarton
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever.
May Sarton
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
May Sarton
Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
May Sarton
we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
May Sarton
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
May Sarton
Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.
May Sarton
In the country of pain we are each alone.
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
Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.
May Sarton
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
May Sarton
Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton
... love is healing, even rootless love.
May Sarton