The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
May SartonWhat is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?
May SartonMy own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.
May SartonFor poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
May Sarton