The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
May SartonSolitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
May SartonDon't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
May SartonA body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.
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 Sarton