Selected Poems
May Sarton
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is not so much trying to keep alive As trying to keep from blowing apart From inner explosions every day.”
“I am not ready to die, But I am learning to trust death As I have trusted life. I am moving Toward a new freedom”
“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie, Endured, never expended. There are old griefs so proud They never speak a word; They never can be mended. And these nourish the will And keep it iron-hard.”
“...when the petals fall Say it is beautiful and good, say it is well”
“So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.”
“Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.”
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay down at sunrise drunk with light.”
“...The means of choice: She might choose to ascend The falling dream, By some angelic power without a name Reverse the motion, plunge into upwardness, Know height without an end, Density melt to air, silence yield a voice-- Within her fall she felt the pull of Grace.”
“What we have not has made us what we are. Those surface consolations have to go.”
“But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.”
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