May Sarton Quotes about Feelings

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When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

When you change the way you look at a thing, the thing itself changes...By mastering feelings, she had come to understand the meaning of discipline and its reward: freedom and power.

May Sarton

Discipline, Feelings, Looks

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.

May Sarton

Feelings, Balance, Shifting

Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.

May Sarton

Peace, Feelings, World

May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.

May Sarton

Believe, Feelings, Analysis

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

May Sarton

Feelings, Want, Strange

May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

May Sarton

Feelings, Cost, May

May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

May Sarton

Flower, Reading, Feelings

May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.190, Univ. Press of Mississippi

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

May Sarton

Thinking, People, Feelings

May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.44, Open Road Media

My own feeling is that the only possible reason for engaging in the hard labor of writing a novel, is that one is bothered by something one needs to understand, and can come to understand only through the characters in the imagined situation.

May Sarton

Writing, Character, Feelings

May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.18, Open Road Media