May Sarton Quotes about Children

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If 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

If 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

Art, Children, Book

"The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering".

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

May Sarton

Children, Powerful, Entrepreneur

May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.73, Open Road Media

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

May Sarton

Children, Believe, Long

May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.60, Open Road Media

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

May Sarton

Children, Musical Genius, Years