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.
"May Sarton" is the pen name of "Eleanore Marie Sarton", an United States/American poet, novelist and memoirist.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More May Sarton on Wikipedia.In the country of pain we are each alone.
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Though friendship is not quick to burn,It is explosive stuff.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Don'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!
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