Some women marry houses.

~ Anne Sexton

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Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

~ Anne Sexton

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I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.

~ Anne Sexton

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We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

~ Anne Sexton

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