Famous May Sarton Quotes

  • Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers. – May Sarton

    Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.– May Sarton

  • It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name,Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light. – May Sarton

    It is time I came back to my real lifeAfter this voyage to an island with no name,Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.– May Sarton

  • …when the petals fallSay it is beautiful and good, say it is well – May Sarton

    …when the petals fallSay it is beautiful and good, say it is well– May Sarton

  • A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope,And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace). – May Sarton

    A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope,And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace).– May Sarton

  • So let the world go, but hold fast to joy. – May Sarton

    So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.– May Sarton

  • But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings. – May Sarton

    But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.– May Sarton