~ May Sarton Quotes ~

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May Sarton Quotes


The pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton, an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.
May Sarton is the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (3 May 1912 – 16 July 1995), an American poet, novelist, and memoirist.

Here are some famous quotes by May Sarton.

Excellence costs a great deal.

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Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

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What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

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For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.

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Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

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There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

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Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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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.

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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth and without light nothing flowers.

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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.

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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always she had to admit interesting.

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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.