I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May SartonIn poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance.
May SartonIf I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.
May SartonIf art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
May Sarton