Garden Quotes - Page 71
In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.
There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
"The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering".
True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
May Sarton, Marilyn Kallet (1993). “A House of Gathering: Poets on May Sarton's Poetry”, p.135, Univ. of Tennessee Press
gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.
May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.30, Open Road Media
Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company
Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.56, Conari Press