May Sarton Quotes

...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

It's such a wonderful thing for me to be able to be in there and make music with people that I love, first of all. It's something that I'm so passionate about.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

I can't even tell anyone how it feels when I'm acting, I don't mean to say that I don't have to try. But there's something in my heart that explodes, and I feel like I understand. When I'm acting, I feel like so in control and so centered. This is something that I solely get from acting and music. It's like love itself.

I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.

I wanted to write about the things that I love.

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

I am happy to be alive, as long as I can paint.