"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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Source: Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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