May Sarton Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• 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.

  May Sarton

  Artist, Self, Joy

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

• 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.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Thinking, Joy

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

• 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

  May Sarton

  Morning, Flower, Evening Light

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

• One of the springs of poetry is joy.

  May Sarton

  Spring, Joy, Poetry Is

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.6, Open Road Media

• Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

  May Sarton

  Fighting, Dragons, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.175, Open Road Media

• Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

  May Sarton

  Joy, Absurd, Pencils

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.98, Open Road Media

• So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

  May Sarton

  Joy, World, Hold Fast

  May Sarton (2014). “Selected Poems of May Sarton”, p.144, Open Road Media

• Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

  May Sarton

  Prayer, Real, Artist

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.127, Open Road Media

• People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

  May Sarton

  Talking, People, Joy

• Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Passion, Snow

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.77, Open Road Media

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