May Sarton Quotes

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.
May Sarton

Gardening, Nature, Patience

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton

Loneliness, Self, Poverty

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton

Love, Give, Himself

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

Human, Hero, Decent

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

Self, May, Strange

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton

Real, Give, Able

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton

Gardening, Help, Nothing

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.
May Sarton

Living, Play, Order

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton

Women, Last, Second

In the country of pain we are each alone.
May Sarton

Alone, Pain, Country

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton

House, Warm, Chair

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!
May Sarton

Forget, Person, Old

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

Work, Place, Failures

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
May Sarton

Love, Fear, Privilege

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
May Sarton

Life, Best, May

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
May Sarton

Talk, Won, Hear

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton

Nothing, Behind, Hide

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

Change, Means, Few

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton

Mind, Opposite, Minute

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton

Words, Become, Dangerous

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton

True, Feeling, May

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 3, 1912

Died: 1995

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