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Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Matter
Saner
Thing
Sane
Good
Insane
Crazy

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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
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Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.
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