List of May Sarton Quotes

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May Sarton
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More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
Art Passion Destruction
For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, god knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
Self Confidence Age Weakness
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed
Self Innocence Pure
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
Able Sometimes Dishes
I tell the gods are still alive / and they are not consoling.
God Alive Consoling
The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. to close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
Pain Mean Doors
O cruel cloudless space, and pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! why do we feel restored as in a sacramental place? here mystery is artifice, and here a vision of such peace is stored, healing flows from it through our eyes.
Lying Healing Eye
Gardening is the instrument of grace.
Grace Gardening Instruments
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.
Innocent Person Machines Faces
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. it is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
War Moving Power
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. but you may have to break your poem to remake it.
Growing Up Hug Doe
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when i have a muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
Writing World Able
  • Born: May 3, 1912
  • Died: July 16, 1995
  • Occupation: Poet
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