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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

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
Stones
Safe
Broken
Psychosis
Face
Cracked
Faces
Revelations
Hard
Mask
Made
Covered
Like
Stone

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