The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up. May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration. May Sarton growing frustration age For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. May Sarton self-confidence weakness age Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. May Sarton salt flavor solitude Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard. May Sarton fever pain winter We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains. May Sarton creative believe moving We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers. May Sarton strong spring fall I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. May Sarton born answers book Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature. May Sarton miraculous miracle About loving, I have little to learn from the young. May Sarton youth young littles 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. May Sarton pain doors mean O cruel cloudless space, May Sarton eye healing lying In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. May Sarton unimportant Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. May Sarton pencils absurd joy I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me. May Sarton able writing world I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible. May Sarton math order science There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death. May Sarton garden doors religion Without anxiety life would have very little savor. May Sarton anxiety littles We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. May Sarton jellyfish being-honest honesty The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. May Sarton balance stress solitude People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves. May Sarton feelings people thinking
