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derangedrhythms · 21 hours ago

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⁠— all I can say is "FUCK"

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— Anne Clarke, 23rd March 1964

#anne sexton #a self portrait in letters #letters

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perfectquote · 8 hours ago

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You make me feel that the world is not strange.

Anne Sexton

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fawnaura · a day ago

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Anne Sexton, The Collected Poems; “December 11th”

#quote #anne sexton #poetry #bed #tongue #kiss #desire #love letter

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nightlyquotes · 2 days ago

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I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.

Anne Sexton, from a letter to Dennis Farrell written c. June 1962

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marscia · 2 hours ago

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My current read + books from two (three?) months ago I have yet to read (oops)

#bookblr #books #booklr #studyblr #studyspo #anne sexton #contemporary fiction #classic literature #light academia #dark academia #rachel cusk #italo calvino

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unsureofu · 5 months ago

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on loving someone who has passed

a self portrait in letters by anne sexton / aubade by louise glück / achilles and patroclus by @maieste / all about love by bell hooks / blue sun by nina mouawad / albert camus correspondance to maria casarès / un homme et une femme by stephan sinding / the gods show up by michael kinnucan / the chronology of water: a memoir by lidia yuknavitch

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mitskey · 24 days ago

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—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of The Island/ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women/ Unknown/ John Keats, To The Ladies Who Saw Me Crowned/ Anne Sexton, Suicide Note: The Complete Poems/ Irish Murdoch, The Italian Girls/ Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath/ Anne Sexton, The Truth the Dead Know/ Virginia Woolf, The Waves/ Pablo Neruda, One Hundred Sonnets

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babytoothbrain · 24 days ago

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June, Don't Abandon Me

The Truth the Dead Know, Anne Sexton// Flaming June, Frederic Leighton// "The Waves", Virginia Woolf// A Day in June, Isaac Levitan// 100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda// Study in June Sunlight, Edmund C. Tarbell// Disorder, Vanesha Pravin//

#june 2022 #june #poetry #web weaving #painting #prose #spilled ink #spilled words #words #anne sexton #virgina woolf #pablo neruda #frederic leighton #isaac levitan #edmund c. tarbell #Vanesha Pravin #intertextuality #collage #dont tell my friends

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derangedrhythms · a day ago

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Anne Sexton, 45 Mercy Street; from 'Demon'

#anne sexton #45 mercy street #demon #poetry #excerpts #american literature #chthonic #deity

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raeiyyn · 3 months ago

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on loneliness

Amy Dunne // Nickie Zimov // Carol Lee, To Die For // Marie Alsing // Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters // As Tears Go By (1988) dir. Wong Kar Wai // Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his wife Anna Dostoevsky, 28 August 1879 // Aron Wiesenfeld // Margaret Atwood, from "Thoughts From Underground"

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fawnaura · 2 days ago

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Anne Sexton, The Collected Poems; “A Little Uncomplicated Hymn for Joy”

#quote #anne sexton #poets #song #knees #ribs #body #heart

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anaysa · 6 months ago

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Anne Sexton, from a letter to Anne Clarke daa

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firstfullmoon · a month ago

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Anne Sexton, from “Leaves That Talk,” in The Complete Poems

[text ID: Yes. / It’s May 20th and the leaves, / green, green, wearing their masks / and speaking, calling out their Sapphic loves, / are here — here — here —]

#w #poetry #anne sexton #spring is the season of the heart #q

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sorryforthebonyelbows · 3 months ago

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