My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note! May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death. May Sarton immortalitybookthinking all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams. May Sarton humilityhumbledream Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give. May Sarton wealthablegiving People who cannot feel punish those who do. May Sarton insensitivityfeelspeople It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. May Sarton clearpoet A good marriage shuts out a very great deal. May Sarton good-marriagedeals life is always bringing unexpected gifts. May Sarton unexpected-giftsunexpectedlife-is He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast. May Sarton legscatdesire They are commiting murder who merely live. May Sarton murder Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction. May Sarton abstractionlightsnow Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them. May Sarton define-youmountain At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. May Sarton solitudelonelinessmay We only keep what we lose. May Sarton losesloss In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. May Sarton noveljourneyjournal Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. May Sarton respectselfneeds I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve. May Sarton touchingmenthinking If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre. May Sarton couplewritingthinking have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself. May Sarton your-dreamsdreamwriting when I am working I immediately feel hopeful. May Sarton hopefulfeels Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage? May Sarton bondage
