#a self-portrait in letters

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[metamorphesque]

In the head. In the heart of hearts. It is in my ability, I think, to love something fully only if I am naturally, compulsively, irrationally drawn to it.

Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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[derangedrhythms]

how does one live with the knowledge that death, their own special death, is waiting silently in their body to overtake them at some undetermined time?

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters — Anne Clarke, 27th February 1964

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[wehavewords]

“I am so tired of that old suffering. I want life to go forward.”

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[aschenblumen]

Los ojos de Clover rebosan lenguaje. El doctor Deitz no lo habla. Pero está interesado. Tal vez sea una buena señal. El lenguaje no tiene nada que ver con el pensamiento racional. Creo que es la razón por la que me pongo tan terriblemente furiosa y trastornada con el pensamiento racional. El lenguaje es lo opuesto a cómo funciona una máquina. ¿El lenguaje es poesía, tal vez? Pero no todo el lenguaje es poesía. Ni toda la poesía es lenguaje. Y ese es mi problema. Es lenguaje es (por ej.) cuando digo «Tengo espacio». [...] ¿Y to? Navego como una loca en el LENGUAJE sea lo que sea y después me doy de bruces con la realidad (¿qué es, realmente?)...

— Anne Sexton, carta a Anne Clarke con fecha del 3 de julio de 1964, compilada en Anne Sexton. Un autorretrato en cartas. Traducción de Andrés Catalán, Ben Clark, Juan David González-Iglesias y Ainhoa Rebolledo.

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[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger."

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[runningfromadream]

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here now.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters

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[strykerlancer]

“Madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet.”

— Anne Sexton, from “A Self-Portrait in Letters.”

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[twicedailyquotes]

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Anne Sexton

A Self-Portrait in Letters

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[petaltexturedskies]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

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[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters

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[metamorphesque]

What kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?

— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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[derangedrhythms]

(I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people)

Anne Sexton, from ‘A Self-Portrait in Letters’ ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, 11th January 1959

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[adrasteiax]

(...) I'm speechless...what kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters

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