May Sarton Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• 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

• I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

  May Sarton

  Passion, Thinking, Two

• More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

  May Sarton

  Art, Passion, Destruction

• Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

  May Sarton

  Passion, Poet, My Passion

• 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!

  May Sarton

  Passion, Love Is, Views

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

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