May Sarton Quotes
May Sarton Quotes
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
4860For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
1074 Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
4677 I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time-except maybe when I'm making love.
2254 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.
1421 Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.
4264 One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?
2407 I felt pain like an assault,
The old pain again
When the world thrusts itself inside,
When we have to take in the outside,
When we have to decide
To be the crazy-human with hope
Or just plain crazy
With fear.
2805 Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
1922 I am not ready to die,
But I am learning to trust death
As I have trusted life.
I am moving
Toward a new freedom
1446 So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.
1974 But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.
2513 Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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