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The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude

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The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude
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“There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone.”

“The best things in life happen to you when you’re alone,” artist Agnes Martin reflected in her final years. “Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!” wrote the founding father of neuroscience in his advice to young scientists. The poet Elizabeth Bishop believed that everyone should experience at least one prolonged period of solitude in life. For in true solitude, as Wendell Berry

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