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I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography

Book by May Sarton · 6 quotes · Children, Solitude, Believe

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“This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.”