May Sarton Joy Quotations

Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

one of the springs of poetry is joy ...

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!