May Sarton Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

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  Artist, Self, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

• True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

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  Feelings, Cost, May

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

• My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.

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  Writing, Character, Feelings

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.18, Open Road Media

• For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

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  Flower, Reading, Feelings

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

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  Peace, Feelings, World

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

• Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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  Strength, Happiness, People

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.21, Open Road Media

• People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

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  Thinking, People, Feelings

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.44, Open Road Media

• How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead from the neck down by the time they are forty, and that any deep feeling, any passion after that age, is either ludicrous or revolting!

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  Passion, Love Is, Views

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.63, Open Road Media

• Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.

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  Feelings, Balance, Shifting

• For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

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  Believe, Feelings, Analysis

• I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

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  Feelings, Want, Strange

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• ... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.

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  Self, Class, Two

• 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.

  May Sarton

  Discipline, Feelings, Looks

• You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

  May Sarton

  Inspiration, Feelings, Inspired

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