May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedb...

May Sarton on the Cure for Despair and Why Solitude Is the Seedbed of Self-Discovery || by Maria Popova :: The Marginalian

Posted by Between the Lines • Profile • 08/07/22 at 07:33PM • Share Books, Literature • Public Interest • See more by Maria Popova

Few artists have articulated the dance between this “divine discontent” and creative fulfillment more memorably than the poet, novelist, essayist, and diarist May Sarton (May 3, 1912–July 16, 1995). In her Journal of a Solitude (public library), Sarton records and reflects on her interior life in the course of one year, her sixtieth, with remarkable candor and courage. Out of these twelve private months arises the eternity of the human experience with its varied universal capacities for astonishment and sorrow, hollowing despair and creative vitality.