“Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.”

—  Anne Sexton

"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

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poet from the United States 1928–1974

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