408 Quotes by May Sarton

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.

I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.