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Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Learning
Sense
Order
Beautiful
Diary
Ends
Diaries
Certain
Narrow
Mind
Something
Worth

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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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