408 Quotes by May Sarton

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

No partner in a love relationship...should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

Now there is time and time is young.O, in this single hour I liveAll of myself and do not move.I, the pursued, who madly ran,Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!