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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
Order
Beautiful
Ends
Diary
Certain
Diaries
Mind
Narrow
Something
Worth
Learning
Sense

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I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They will knit. And the other corpse, the fractured heart, I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.
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