408 Quotes by May Sarton

Nobody stays special when they’re old, Anna. That’s what we have to learn.

Not happiness, perhaps, but something like New England itself – struggle, occasional triumph over adversity, above all the power to endure and to be renewed. For here the roses grow beside the granite.

I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I’m not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable.

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else’s bondage?

It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person...

You can’t plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I’m inspired.

Every relation challenges; every relation asks me to be something, do something, respond. Close off response and what is left? Bearing... enduring... waiting.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets – they’re more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.