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Anne Sexton Quotes: I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
         

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.


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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.



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