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Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

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
Psychiatry
Mirror
Dirty
Mirrors

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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.
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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
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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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