May Sarton

"It has been stupidly difficult to let go, but that is what has been needed. I had allowed myself to get overanxious, clutching at what seemed sure to pass, and clutching is the surest way to murder love."

- May Sarton

"There is a wilder solitude in winter, / When every sense is pricked alive and keen."

- May Sarton

"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever."

- May Sarton

"Loneliness is the poverty of self. Solitude is the richness of self."

- May Sarton

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

- May Sarton

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

- May Sarton

"A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward, to reset oneself by an inner compass."

- May Sarton

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

- May Sarton

"Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers."

- May Sarton

"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."

- May Sarton