I am ugly, submerged in my own past and my own madness - Anne Sexton

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I am ugly,
submerged in my own past
and my own madness

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die.

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