What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton 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. May Sarton passiondestructionart Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed May Sarton innocencepureself The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it. May Sarton culturepeoplelooks I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness. May Sarton lastshappinessthinking Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. May Sarton playinspiringchildren Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? May Sarton strengthhappinesspeople For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. May Sarton chaosorderart 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. May Sarton powerwarmoving There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. May Sarton alivesolitudewinter You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. May Sarton memorialfigureslong There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. May Sarton reallovegiving Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing! May Sarton nature-lovebasesshare I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not. May Sarton masculine-and-femininepersonalityexpression It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness? May Sarton were-meant-to-beknacklooks It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! May Sarton privilegemurderlove You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired. May Sarton inspiredinspirationfeelings Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer. May Sarton artistrealprayer We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else. May Sarton patientpatienceart Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry? May Sarton hourshalfdoors 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 growingfrustrationage
