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May Sarton
American
Poet
About the author
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Mind
#Certainty
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,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Flowers
#Darkness
#Light
#Spirit
#Help
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#First
#Women
#Wives
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#May
#Self
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Feeling
#May
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Words
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,
American
Poet
#Growth
#Change
#Garden
#Disasters
#Loss
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Nothing
#Self
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Love
#Fear
#Murder
#Privilege
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,
American
Poet
#Gifts
In the country of pain we are each alone.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Country
#Pain
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Being
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Self
#Poverty
#Loneliness
#Solitude
#Richness
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,
American
Poet
#Life
#May
#Fashion
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Talk
#People
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,
American
Poet
#Love
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
#Work
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,
American
Poet
#Patience
#Grace
#Help
#Nature
#Gardening
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
May Sarton,
American
Poet
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,
American
Poet
#Forget
#Will
#Baby
#Months
#Genius
#Temperament
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,
American
Poet
#Day
#Play
#Living
#Creation
#Order
#Discipline
#Foolishness