…”write me some blood. That is why you were great in the first place. Don’t let prizes stop you from your original courage, the courage of an alien. Be still, that alien, who wrote “real” when no one really wanted it. Because, that is the one thing that will save…
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~Anne Sexton to W.D. Snodgrass, 6-27-1960 Anne Sexton, A Self Portrait in Letters; ISBN 0-395-62880-6 |
