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Anne Sexton
“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”
Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton
“Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women"

Perhaps I was born kneeling,
born coughing on the long winter,
born expecting the kiss of mercy,
born with a passion for quickness
and yet, as things progressed,
I learned early about the stockade
or taken out, the fume of the enema.
By two or three I learned not to kneel,
not to expect, to plant my fires underground
where none but the dolls, perfect and awful,
could be whispered to or laid down to die.

Now that I have written many words,
and let out so many loves, for so many,
and been altogether what I always was—
a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
I find the effort useless.
Do I not look in the mirror,
these days,
and see a drunken rat avert her eyes?
Do I not feel the hunger so acutely
that I would rather die than look
into its face?
I kneel once more,
in case mercy should come
in the nick of time.”
Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

John O'Donohue
“Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.”
John O'Donohue, Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace

Austin Kleon
“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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