“A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warm the stars.
A writer is essentially a spy.
Dear love, I am that girl.”

—  Anne Sexton

"The Black Art"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

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poet from the United States 1928–1974

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