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May Sarton quotes

American Poet May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995

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May Sarton quote: "Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time."
Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or..."
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "Public education was not founded to give society what it..."
Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and..."
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. May Sarton
I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face. May Sarton
I can tell you that solitude. Is not all exaltation, inner space. Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places."
Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places. May Sarton
Nothing moves fast in Texas except the windmills. And the hawk that rises up with a clatter of wings.(Nothing more startling there than sudden motion, Everything is so still.) May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and..."
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard. May Sarton
Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable"
The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent..."
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the..."
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year. May Sarton
May Sarton quote: "True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. May Sarton

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