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My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

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
Awful
Criticism
Carpenter
Spring
Discontent
Inspirational
Clown
Order
Witch
Ideas
Nurse
Play
Curse
Things
Radical

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