Quotes by May Sarton

“In the country of pain we are each alone.”

“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”

“No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.”

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