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Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.

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
Woman
Typewriters
Moving
Rhyme
Women
Seed
Take
Seeds
Purging
Like
Grass
Drumming
Move
Rhymes
Talking
Planting
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