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''The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.''
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Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "A Small Journal," entry for Nov. 19, 1971, The Poet's Story, ed. Howard Moss (1974).
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''Everyone has left me
except my muse,
that good nurse.
She stays in my hand,
a mild white mouse.''
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Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. Flee on Your Donkey, st. 3, Live or Die (1966).
The title quotes Rimbaud's Fêtes de la Faim (1872).
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