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Quote by May Sarton

“You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.”

Quote by May Sarton

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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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“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”

People Kind Ideas Real Self Hard Joy Artist Prayer Becoming Communicate Hard Times Righteousness Exclusive Self Righteousness Real Joy Smugness

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.”

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Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?”

Should Happens Hours Half Doors Great Men

Book:Conversations with May Sarton

Source: Conversations with May Sarton

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

Men Husband Married Strongest Stakes Commonwealth Bachelors Married Man Binders

Book:The Holy State and the Profane State

Source: The Holy State and the Profane State

“The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.”

Helping Values Courses Particular Balance Solitude Stress Cushions

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.”

People Thinking Feelings Destructive Hiding Always Thinking

Book:Crucial Conversations: A Novel

Source: Crucial Conversations: A Novel

“Time unbounded is hard to handle.”

Hard Handle Hard To Handle

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.”

Knows Way Littles Understanding Drink Deeper Desperation Inhale Before Death

Author:May Sarton

“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.”

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Book:Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings

Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings