May Sarton Long Quotations

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go"...

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

It takes a long time for words to become thought ...

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.