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May Sarton, an influential American poet and novelist, explored themes of love, aging, and solitude with profound insight and lyrical grace. Through works like "Journal of a Solitude" and "Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing," Sarton captured the complexities of the human experience with honesty and sensitivity. Her introspective poetry continues to resonate with readers, offering solace and illumination in times of struggle.
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

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"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."
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"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."

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"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."
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"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."

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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."

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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

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"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"
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"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!"

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"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."
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"In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place."

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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."

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"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."
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"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace."

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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."

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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."

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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."
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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

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"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
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"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."

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"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."
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"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."

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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."

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"In the country of pain we are each alone."
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"In the country of pain we are each alone."

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"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."
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"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."

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