The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.
May SartonIn the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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 SartonI have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
May Sarton