#sarton

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I always forget how important the empty days are.

Mary Sarton, Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering, 1973

Photo: Lee Miller, Juan les Pins France 1930

[thetoymakers]

If you are a writer or an artist, it is work that fulfills and makes you come into wholeness, and that goes on through a lifetime. Whatever the wounds that have to heal, the moment of creation assures that all is well, that one is still in tune with the universe, that the inner chaos can be probed and distilled into order and beauty. ~ May Sarton

[gnossienne]

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[velvetbronte]

“The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

— May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

[bestoed3]

She saw herself disrupted at the center and torn. And she went into the sea because her core ached and there was no healing.

May Sarton, from “She Shall Be Called Woman”

[yokbeabicim]

Doğada insan dışında umutsuzluğa düşen bir şey var mı? Ayağını tuzağa kaptıran bir hayvan umutsuz gözükmez. Hayatta kalmakla aşırı meşguldür. Tamamiyle sükunetli, istekli bir bekleyişle kuşatılmıştır. Bu bir anahtar mıdır? Hayatta kalmakla meşgul ol. Ağaçları taklit et. İyileşmek için kaybetmeyi öğren, ve hiçbir şeyin uzun süre aynı kalmayacağını anımsa, acının, ruhsal acının bile. Pencereden seyret. Geçmesine müsaade et. Aldırma.

Sarton 

[detroitlib]

May Sarton  (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995)

May Sarton was a prolific author who was long considered by her very loyal readers to be a gifted and sensitive writer of poetry, novels, and journals. Although at first overlooked by literary critics, in the later part of her career reviewers and feminist academics began to discover Sarton's work, lauding her as an important contemporary American author. (poetryfoundation.org)

From our stacks: Dust jacket detail from Miss Pickthorn and Mr. Hare. A Fable by May Sarton. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1966. First Edition. “ Jacket design by James J. Spanfeller”