408 Quotes by May Sarton

I too have known the inward disturbance of exile,The great peril of being at home nowhere,The dispersed center, the dividing love;Not here, nor there, leaping across ocean, Turning, returning to each strong allegiance;American, but with this difference - parting.

It was a painful week, swung between doubt and hope. I knew that tension well. It is just the same before I begin to write a book or a poem. It is the tension of being on the brink of a major commitment, and not being quite sure whether one has it in one to carry it through - the stage where the impossible almost exactly balances the possible, and a thistledown may shift the scales one way or another.

In the end I knew I would have to trust to instinct, not estimates.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

... love is healing, even rootless love.