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May Sarton [1912-1995] American

Rank: 102
Poet

May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist and memoirist.

Alone, Communication, Gardening, Change, Home, Love, Nature, Patience, Relationship

Quote	Tags	Rank
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.	Alone	101
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.	Love	102
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.		103
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.	Gardening	104
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.	Change	105
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.	Relationship	106
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.	Communication	107
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.	Gardening, Nature, Patience	108
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.	Home	109
In the country of pain we are each alone.	Alone	110
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.		111
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.		112
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!		113
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.		114
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.	Communication	115
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.		116
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.		117
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!		118
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.		119
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.		120
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.		121

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