Lush, beautiful, haunting poem by May Sarton: "Now I Become Myself" https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/06/may-sarton-now-i-become-myself.html.

Excerpt:

"From wish to action, word to silence,
My work, my love, my time, my face
Gathered into one intense
Gesture of growing like a plant."

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #MaySarton #WritingPoetry #aging #writing #plants

Libros reseñados en marzo.
Publicados por Seix Barral, Siruela, Bamba Editorial, Taurus, Suma de Letras y Lumen.
https://imanol-zubero.blogspot.com/2025/04/lecturas-de-marzo.html
#libros #autoras #librosrecomendados #MaySarton #consuelo

Creo que la lectura más importante que he hecho en los últimos cinco años ha sido los diarios de #MaySarton.
Cuando vuelva del viaje y acabe con Dosto, voy a releerlos.

#amreading The House by the Sea, one of #MaySarton’s several journals; it’s a treat. She’s such a good writer, but the occasional gems from her life are also very interesting. An example: her passing reference to #VladimirNabokov as a tenant in a house where she once lived, who loved “a small ashtray covered with butterflies.” Nothing else said — it’s just an idle recollection as she packs up mementos from a house she once shared with Judy Matlack. @bookstodon

#MaySarton:

“… the basic pattern of a life changes radically when there is no one left, for instance, who remembers one as a child. Each such death [of a person who knew one when] is an earthquake that buries a little more of the past forever” (The House by the Sea, p. 81).

#SundaySentence cluster @bookstodon #GettingOlder

I've only recently discovered May Sarton's novels, so wonderful, about all sorts of emotional dynamics, aging, lesbian love. Now I've found The Fur Person, gorgeously written fiction that blurs into memoir, about a homeless cat who finds her and her partner. #cats #books #amreading #MaySarton

#MaySarton:

"… in seeking happiness above all, of course we never find it. It is a by-product and not the end of life surely. And all personal relationships depend so much on patience, on living through the deep places, the bored places, the dark places together."

-- in a 1945 letter to Juliette Huxley. Published in "Dear Juliette," p. 142.

@bookstodon #SundaySentence cluster #happiness

#MaySarton: “I am drawn to people, for I am one myself, for whom literature is a passion, deep rather than wide readers, who discover the great works as Marc had discovered #Proust, feel themselves companioned by certain writers throughout a lifetime, follow every clue about the invention of characters in their books, one might almost say lead double lives.” — A World of Light, p. 156.

@bookstodon

@bookstodon @ZenobiaVayne I gather that #MaySarton had intimate relationships with both Juliette and Julian Huxley, so they were definitely close. But I don’t think the note or the book is addressed to Sarton — the book is written by Sarton (and Koteliansky is one of the people profiled in it). My big questions now are who received the note and this copy of the book and (the really big one) whether the book’s dedication (see picture below) and the note are authentic.

Looking to solve a mystery. One of my recent used bookstore finds is a signed 1st Edition of #MaySarton’s A Work of Light. The book includes the note pictured below. I realize it’s a (very) long shot, but might someone identify the author or the recipient of the note?

Please boost for broader circulation.

#bookstodon @bookstodon

Today's #quote is:

"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
(May Sarton)

If you really knew it was OK to embrace all of you, tapping into your own unique strengths, talents and perspectives, what occurs to you now?

#coaching, #coaches, #coach, #PersonalDevelopment, #MaySarton

"I find that when I have any appointment, even an afternoon one, it changes the whole quality of time. I feel overcharged." — May Sarton — — — #MaySarton #quote #quotes #time #appointment #schedule #obligation #imposition #constrain #constraint

Poema de May Sarton: Ahora me convierto en mí http://www.theclinic.cl/2017/12/05/poema-may-sarton-ahora-me-convierto/ #MaySarton #Cultura #poesía #poema