May Sarton Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

  May Sarton

  War, Moving, Power

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

• He [the cat] wound himself around her legs, purring the purr of ardent desire like a kettle coming to a boil and then bubbling very fast.

  May Sarton

  Cat, Desire, Legs

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

  May Sarton

  Ambition, Desire, Made

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