Quotes by : May Sarton

One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get....

Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes....

When I speak of life and love as expanding with age, sex seems the least important thing. At any age....

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays....

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

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves....

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is....

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

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