“Longing is not a mind game and that is why I’ve always trusted it. Longing is raw, longing is real; it makes one listen and be attentive to what’s inside. There is mad honesty in longing. So mad that it feels suitable. It is very suitable for me, I’m telling you — I don’t even want to write it or write about it, I want to be it.”

Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (1977)