May Sarton
"I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass."
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"I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep ... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass."
"أفكر في الأشجار وكيف تتخلى ببساطة، فتسقط كنوز موسمها، وكيف بلا أسى (فيما يبدو) تستطيع أن تدعها تذهب وتتعمق في جذورها للتجديد والسبات... حاكِ الأشجار. تعلم أن تخسر لتستعيد، وتذكر أن لا شيء يدوم طويلاً، ولا حتى الألم، الألم النفسي. اصبر عليه. دع كل شيء يمر."
May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
"If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?"
"إن لم يكن الفن معززًا للحياة، فماذا عساه أن يكون؟ نصف العالم أنثوي، فلماذا يُستاء من فنٍّ ذي توجه أنثوي؟ لا أحد يطالب "حكاية غنجي" بأن تكون ذكورية! فالنساء يتعلمن الكثير من الكتب الموجهة لعالم ذكوري. فلماذا لا يصدق العكس أيضًا؟ أم أن الرجال حقًا يخشون إبداع المرأة (لأنهم ليسوا هم في مركز الخلق، ولا يستطيعون إنجاب الأطفال) لدرجة أن كاتبة عبقرية تثير غضبًا قاتلًا، ويجب أن تُنبذ بازدراء على أنها "غير ذات صلة"؟"
May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
"Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go."
"هل من كائن في الطبيعة ييأس إلا الإنسان؟
حيوانٌ علقت ساقه في فخٍّ لا يبدو عليه اليأس، بل هو منشغلٌ تمامًا بمحاولة البقاء.
ينغلق على ذاته في ترقبٍ ساكنٍ عميق.
أفليس هذا هو المفتاح؟ أن تنشغل بالبقاء.
حاكي الأشجار.
تعلّم الفقد لتستردّ،
واذكر أن لا شيء يدوم على حاله، ولا حتى الألم، ألم الروح.
اصبر عليه. دعه يمضي. أطلقه."
May Sarton
Journal of a Solitude
"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."
"لم تُؤسَّسْ التربيةُ العامةُ لتُلبّيَ رغباتِ المجتمعِ، بل على النقيضِ تمامًا."
May Sarton
"Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self."
"الوحدة فقر الذات، والعزلة ثراء الروح."
May Sarton
"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."
"البيت الذي يخلو من كرسي وثير دافئ، هو بيت بلا روح."
May Sarton
"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."
"الحديقة نمو وتغير، وهذا يعني فقدانًا أيضًا، إلى جانب كنوز جديدة لا تنقطع تعوض عن بعض الكوارث."
May Sarton
"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
"لا ينبغي لأي شريك في علاقة حب أن يشعر بأنه مضطر للتخلي عن جزء جوهري من ذاته لجعلها مستدامة."
May Sarton
"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
"اللهم اجعلنا دوماً بستانيين أمناء للروح، ندرك أن لا شيء يولد إلا بالظلام، ولا شيء يزهر إلا بالنور."
May Sarton
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
May Sarton
"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
May Sarton
"For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was."
May Sarton
"There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much."
May Sarton
"It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always she had to admit interesting."
May Sarton
"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers."
May Sarton
"Each day and the living of it has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
May Sarton
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