May Sarton Order Quotations

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

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?

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

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

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.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

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