May Sarton - Order Quotes

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A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

May Sarton
It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.

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I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.

May Sarton
Making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

May Sarton
The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

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One must always get away to taste experience. One must always escape from people one loves in order to love them. Isn't it queer?

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Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

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Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and some pure foolishness.

May Sarton