Anne Sexton

"And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope"

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Source: Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her confessional style, exploring themes of mental illness and love in works like 'Live or Die'.

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