Poetry led me by the hand out of madness. / Anne Sexton

"Poetry led me by the hand out of madness." ~ Anne Sexton

"I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life." ~ Anne Sexton

(Interview with Anne Sexton / Patricia Marx and Anne Sexton)

Anne Sexton, 1974, photo by Arthur Furst