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I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

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
Poet
Sitting
Poetry
Study
Words
White
Black
Pushing
Around
Awful

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