Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places. May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams. May Sarton humility humble dream Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give. May Sarton wealth able giving People who cannot feel punish those who do. May Sarton insensitivity feels people It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us. May Sarton clear poet A good marriage shuts out a very great deal. May Sarton good-marriage deals life is always bringing unexpected gifts. May Sarton unexpected-gifts unexpected life-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 legs cat desire They are commiting murder who merely live. May Sarton murder Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction. May Sarton abstraction light snow Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them. May Sarton define-you mountain At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. May Sarton solitude loneliness may We only keep what we lose. May Sarton loses loss In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. May Sarton novel journey journal Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. May Sarton respect self needs 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 touching men thinking 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 couple writing thinking have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself. May Sarton your-dreams dream writing when I am working I immediately feel hopeful. May Sarton hopeful feels Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage? May Sarton bondage Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away. May Sarton light dying years
