Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
Mary Sarton quote The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
Mary Sarton quote The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Mary Sarton quote The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Mary Sarton quote There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Mary Sarton quote True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
Mary Sarton quote We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Mary Sarton quote Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
Mary Sarton quote Biography
American author, 1912 - 55
