“Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup?”

—  Anne Sexton

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

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poet from the United States 1928–1974

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