May Sarton Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

  May Sarton

  Life, Music, Flower

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.67, Open Road Media

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

  May Sarton

  Silence, Read Between The Lines, Ifs

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

• A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

  May Sarton

  Voice, Space, Silence

• I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

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