Time unbounded is hard to handle. May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is? May Sarton humans tragedy needed Love is our human miracle. May Sarton miracle humans love-is 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 musical-genius children years Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest. May Sarton teaching way needs There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart. May Sarton battle real fall Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude. May Sarton nothingness rich poverty True power is given to the vulnerable. May Sarton true-power given vulnerable This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within. May Sarton cities reality travel For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living. May Sarton break-through singing angel Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. May Sarton wrinkles past years each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature. May Sarton formal energy literature For after all we make our faces as we go along. May Sarton faces For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable. May Sarton making-peace dilemma moral Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn. May Sarton anna special It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great. May Sarton hurt two people I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played. May Sarton imagine roles sometimes It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person. May Sarton buried hard persons An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair. May Sarton despair treasure sex Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists. May Sarton solitude self people in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts. May Sarton success running long
