Quote

I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.

May Sarton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
Diarist
Poet
Writer
May Eleanor Sarton
Consoling
Gods
God
Alive
Tell
Stills
Still

More quotes by May Sarton

Image
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
May Sarton
Image
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
Image
He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.
May Sarton
Image
It takes a long time for words to become thought.
May Sarton
Image
An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
May Sarton
Image
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May Sarton
Image
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
Image
Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.
May Sarton
Image
You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.
May Sarton
Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
May Sarton
Image
I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
May Sarton
Image
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton
Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
Image
Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
Image
letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
May Sarton
Image
Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time.
May Sarton
Image
I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.
May Sarton
Image
It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.
May Sarton
Image
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
Image
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