"Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea."
"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot."
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Source: Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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