What did May Sarton mean by: Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything – except itself. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium Copy
+ Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Flavor, Salt, Solitude, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Equilibrium, Speech, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ One of the springs of poetry is joy. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 12, 2023, May Sarton, Joy, Poetry, Spring, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Environmental, Holiday, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Earth, Gentle, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, May Sarton, Buried, Hard, Persons, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. Feraz Zeid, October 21, 2023December 26, 2023, May Sarton, Loneliness, One Thing, Solitude, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
+ About loving, I have little to learn from the young. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 24, 2023, May Sarton, Youth, 0 - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. - William Howard Adams Historian · USA
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves. - Jeff Cox
Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden. - Jeff Cox
We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. - Jenny Uglow