May Sarton Quotes


... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.


Citations

Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude. W. W. Norton & Company, 1973, p. 192.

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May Sarton
May Sarton
  • Born: May 3, 1912
  • Died: July 16, 1995
  • Nationality: Belgian, American
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Memoirist

May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.