408 Quotes by May Sarton

It takes a long time for words to become thought...

I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely ’played.

The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won’t boil over!