May Sarton said this quote

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

~ May Sarton

May Sarton Authenticity Life Philosophy Self

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

May Sarton Cats Love Philosophy Power Wisdom

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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May Sarton Death Poetry

I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom

~ May Sarton

May Sarton Death Death And Dying Freedom Freedom In Death Life