408 Quotes by May Sarton

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech...

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening and strange that self may prove to be.

I sometimes think men don’t ‘hear’ very well, if I take your meaning to be ‘understand what is going on in a person.’ That’s what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

Here in the United States we appear to be becoming more and more a country devoted to amenities for the rich, more and more neglectful of the poor.

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

Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen. They.

To go with, not against the elements, an inexhaustible vitality summoned back each day to do the same tasks, to feed the animals, clean out barns and pens, keep that complex world alive.

I suppose one has to remember that ‘life’ is important too, though it’s something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.

Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one’s own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.