“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

—  Anne Sexton

"The Truth the Dead Know"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

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poet from the United States 1928–1974

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