May Sarton
"Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?"
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"Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?"
May Sarton
"Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe."
May Sarton
"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever."
May Sarton
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
"Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go."
May Sarton
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone here and "the house and I resume old conversations"."
May Sarton
"I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room."
May Sarton
"“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”"
May Sarton
"Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite."
May Sarton
"Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels."
May Sarton
"I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love."
May Sarton
"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."
May Sarton
"Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill."
May Sarton
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
May Sarton
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