May Sarton Quotes

Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.

Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We feel the good time is well-nigh past.

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.

I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in.

The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.