Author: May Sarton

Quotes

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.

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

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

- May Sarton

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

- May Sarton

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

- May Sarton

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

- May Sarton

In the country of pain we are each alone.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

- May Sarton

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

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

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

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

- May Sarton

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

- May Sarton

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