Anne Sexton sometimes seemed like a woman without skin. She felt everything so intensely, had so little capacity to filter out pain that everyday events often seemed unbearable to her. Paradoxically it is also that skinlessness which makes a poet. One must have the gift of language, but even a great gift is useless without the other curse: the eyes that see so sharply they often want to close. Erica Jong on the poet Anne Sexton (via cameliaoaks) Wednesday Jan 25 @ 09:25pm 625 notes
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