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Quotes of the Day for 3 May 2005 - May Sarton

Eleanor Marie Sarton was born at Wondelgem, Belgium on this day in 1912. As the Reichswehr invaded in 1916 the family fled to Boston where she studied at the Shady Hill School at Cambridge. When she graduated from high school she was committed to a career in acting but after the failure of New York's Civic Repertory Theater and the subsequent failure of her own repertory company she turned to writing under the name May Sarton. She published four autobiographical volumes, seven novels, and at least nine collections of poetry, the last of which was published only a year before her death.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
     - All from May Sarton, 1912 - 1995

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