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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

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
Wanted
God
Toward
Move
Defaced
Movement
Bowel
Full
Crawl
Religion
Altar
Moving
Altars
House
Bread

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