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“A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.”

Quote by May Sarton

Book:A Reckoning: A Novel

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A Reckoning: A Novel

A gripping narrative that delves into the complexities of moral dilemmas and the consequences of past actions. more

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American poet, born on May 3, 1912, and died on July 16, 1995. Known for her profound psychological insights and delicate portrayals of natural landscapes, May Sarton's poetry has had a significant impact on contemporary poetry, earning her numerous literary awards. more

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“I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).”

Men Understanding Realizing Differences Men And Women Concerned Feeding Mothering

Author:May Sarton

“Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.”

Mountain Define You

Book:Collected Poems: 1930–1993

Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1993

“In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.”

Novel Journey Journal Arrivals

Book:Conversations with May Sarton

Source: Conversations with May Sarton

“My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.”

Needs Writing Hard Reason Character Feelings My Own Situation Novel Labor Engaging Bothered

Book:Writings on Writing

Source: Writings on Writing

“It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.”

Feels Order Curious

Author:May Sarton

“making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.”

Order Disorder Sacraments

Book:Recovering: A Journal

Source: Recovering: A Journal

“we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.”

Thinking Knows Long Done Parent Alive

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.”

Ifs Would Be New York Sweet Cold Smell Senses Paris Heat Unhealthy Subway Dank

Author:May Sarton

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

People Ifs Thinking Two Passion Involved Intense Destructive

Author:May Sarton

“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.”

Art Seems Passion Destruction Seeds

Author:May Sarton