408 Quotes by May Sarton

Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.

For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I’ve missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child’s mind, they are not easily eradicated.

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry – I am writing a lot.

We have to break the mirror to be ourselves...

It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people’s side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It’s a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

Nothing gets easier as one gets older. Everything is harder, even buttoning one’s slipper!