Eleanore Marie "May" Sarton, 1912 - 1995
Born: 3 May 1912, Wondelgem, Belgium
Died: 16 July 1995, York, Maine
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- A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. permalink
May Sarton - A good marriage shuts out a very great deal. permalink
May Sarton - A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. permalink
May Sarton - A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant.... We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics. permalink
May Sarton - Absence becomes the greatest Presence. permalink
May Sarton - "Difficult Scene" (1948) - Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. permalink
May Sarton - At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth. permalink
May Sarton - Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it. permalink
May Sarton - The Poet and the Donkey (1969) - Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. permalink
May Sarton - Journal of a Solitude (1973) - Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. permalink
May Sarton - 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. permalink
May Sarton - Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. permalink
May Sarton - Excellence costs a great deal. permalink
May Sarton - Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. permalink
May Sarton - Kinds of Love (1970) - For a long time, for years, I have carried in my mind the excruciating image of plants, bulbs, in a cellar, trying to grow without light, putting out white shoots that will inevitably wither. permalink
May Sarton - Journal of a Solitude (1973)
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