May Sarton Quote

Now it has become impossible to guard one's soul — death to do it — we are forced to read the papers, and yet I still believe that our job is somehow or other to be above the mêlée, or so deeply in it that one comes through to something else, something universal and timeless.

May Sarton on the Artist’s Duty to Contact the Timeless in Tumultuous Times[brainpickings.org]

Now it has become impossible to guard one's soul — death to do it — we are forced to read the papers, and yet I still believe that our job is...

Now it has become impossible to guard one's soul — death to do it — we are forced to read the papers, and yet I still believe that our job is...

Now it has become impossible to guard one's soul — death to do it — we are forced to read the papers, and yet I still believe that our job is...

Now it has become impossible to guard one's soul — death to do it — we are forced to read the papers, and yet I still believe that our job is...