Quotes by : May Sarton

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

...The means of choice:She might choose to ascendThe falling dream,By some angelic power without a nameReverse....

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

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the....

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name,Where I lay down at....

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally....

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

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

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.