You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love. May Sarton More Quotes by May Sarton More Quotes From May Sarton in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts. May Sarton success running long 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 passion destruction art Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed May Sarton innocence pure self 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 culture people looks 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 lasts happiness thinking 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 play inspiring children Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? May Sarton strength happiness people For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. May Sarton chaos order art 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 power war moving There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. May Sarton alive solitude winter 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 real love giving 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-love bases share 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-feminine personality expression 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-be knack looks It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! May Sarton privilege murder love You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired. May Sarton inspired inspiration feelings 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 artist real prayer 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 patient patience art 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 hours half doors 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
