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May Sarton
1912 – 1995 • American • Poet
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Showing 21 quotesDon'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!— May Sarton
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.— May Sarton
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.— May Sarton
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.— May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.— May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.— May Sarton
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Women
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.— May Sarton
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Relationship
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.— May Sarton
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Love
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.— May Sarton