I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.
May SartonThe body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
May SartonWhat frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.
May SartonFor poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.
May Sarton