Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine Quotes

“Song

This is the love I bring,
Absolute and nothing:
A tree but with no roots,
A cloud heavy with fruit,
A wide stone stair
That leads nowhere
But to empty sky,
Ambiguous majesty.

This is the love I bear:
It is light as air,
Yet weighs like an earth;
It is water flowing,
Yet adamant as fire.
It is coming from going.
It is dying and growing.

A love so rare and hard
It cuts a diamond word
Upon the windowpane,
"Never, never again,
Never upon my breast,"
Having no time to bring,
Having no place to rest,
Absolute and nothing.”
― May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine

“O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran,
Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!”
― May Sarton, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine