“And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself”

—  Anne Sexton

Source: To Bedlam and Part Way Back

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poet from the United States 1928–1974

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