Frases de May Sarton

May Sarton, pseudônimo de Eleanore Marie Sarton foi uma poetisa e romancista estadunidense.

Sarton ganhou uma bolsa para Vassar, mas se sentiu atraído pelo teatro depois de ver Eva Le Gallienne atuar em The Cradle Song. Ela ingressou no Civic Repertory Theatre de Le Gallienne em Nova York e passou um ano trabalhando como aprendiz. No entanto, Sarton continuou a escrever poesia. Quando ela tinha dezessete anos, ela publicou uma série de sonetos em dezembro de 1930, alguns dos quais foram apresentados em seu primeiro volume publicado, Encounter in April . Wikipedia

✵ 3. Maio 1912 – 16. Julho 1995

May Sarton: 28 citações2 Curtidas

May Sarton frases e citações

“Em uma relação amorosa (sejam homo ou heterossexuais), nenhum dos dois deve sentir que, para torná-la viável, abre mão de parte essencial de si.”

No partner in a love relationship (whether homo- or heterosexual) should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Journal of a Solitude‎, Página 122, de May Sarton - Publicado por W.W.Norton, 1992 ISBN 0393309282, 9780393309287 - 208 páginas

“Vida em família! As Nações Unidas são brincadeira de criança se comparadas às lutas, malabarismos e necessidade de compreensão e perdão em qualquer família.”

May Sarton: Frases em inglês

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”

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Fonte: The Poet and the Donkey: A Novel

“I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.”

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

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“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”

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“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”

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

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“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”

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“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.”

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“For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.”

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“A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.”

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“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.”

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Fonte: Journal of a Solitude

“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”

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“Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

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“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

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Fonte: Journal of a Solitude

“Routine is not a prison, but the way to freedom from time.”

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“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”

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“Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.”

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Fonte: Journal of a Solitude

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

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Fonte: Journal of a Solitude

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

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Fonte: At Seventy: A Journal

“Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.”

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“At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.”

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“The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable”

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“Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.”

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“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”

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“Where music thundered let the mind be still,
Where the will triumphed let there be no will,
What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.”

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“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.”

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