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Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
Loneliness
Solitude
Another
Thing

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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry.
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The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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