May Sarton said this quote

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

~ May Sarton

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

~ May Sarton

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.

~ May Sarton

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

~ May Sarton