The Poet May Sarton On Her Creative Process

Every morning you have to conquer the demons who say, “This will never be any good. This will never be what I saw when I dreamed of it.” But you just have to say, “Keep on, keep on,” and finally it gets through.

—May Sarton

I am at my desk from three to four hours every day…

It has to be the morning, before one’s mind is all cluttered up, when the door to the subconscious is still open, when you first wake up.