May Sarton Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 3, 1912 - July 16, 1995
Birthday: May 3
Death: July 16
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.
