May Sarton Quotes

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• I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

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  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

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  Light, Sloth, Important

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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  Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

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  Life, Patience, Nature

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.97, Open Road Media

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• I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

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  Spring, Believe, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.121, Open Road Media

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

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  Inspirational, Dream, Real

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Flower

  May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.138, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not change. Flowers, the morning and evening light, music, poetry, silence, the goldfinches darting about

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  Morning, Flower, Evening Light

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

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  Lying, Grief, Sky

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.494, Open Road Media

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• Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

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  Silence, Read Between The Lines, Ifs

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.571, Open Road Media

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• It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.

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  Believe, Creating, Soul

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

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  Inspirational, Haste, Too Much

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

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  Light, Trying, Rooms

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

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  Age, Elements, Prove

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.

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  Taken, Years

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People who cannot feel punish those who do.

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  People, Feels, Insensitivity

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

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  Pain, Thinking, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• ... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

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  Dream, Hero, Thinking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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

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  People, Speakers

  May Sarton (2014). “A Reckoning: A Novel”, p.127, Open Road Media

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• When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

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  Discipline, Feelings, Looks

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• It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

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  Age, Assuming, Easy

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.

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  Safety, Soul, Littles

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.

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  Being Yourself, Discipline, Doe

  May Sarton (2014). “The House by the Sea: A Journal”, p.131, Open Road Media

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• Love is our human miracle.

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  Love Is, Miracle, Humans

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• Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

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  Letting Go, Pain, Order

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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