A Grain of Mustard Seed Quotes

“I turn your face around! It is my face.
That frozen rage is what I must explore -
Oh secret, self-enclosed, and ravaged place!
This is the gift I thank Medusa for.

—from "The Muse as Medusa”
― May Sarton, A Grain of Mustard Seed: New Poems

“Only the dark and grieving
Could be the still believing.
For only the ill are well,
Only the hunted, free
So the story I have to tell
In the South was told to me.

- from the Ballad of the Sixties”
― May Sarton, A Grain of Mustard Seed: New Poems