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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
Petrarch
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There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Anne Stevenson
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When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
Anne Stevenson
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Anne Stevenson
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Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.
Anne Stevenson
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Anne Stevenson
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
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The sea is as near as we come to another world.
Anne Stevenson
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Let me learn now where Beauty is I was born to know her mysteries . . .
Anne Spencer
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It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
Anne Spencer
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...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
Anne Sexton
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Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.
Anne Sexton
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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.
Anne Sexton
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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Anne Sexton
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Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.
Anne Sexton
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O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.
Anne Sexton
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
Giordano Bruno
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If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.
Anne Sexton
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Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
Anne Sexton
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Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
Anne Sexton
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Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
Anne Sexton
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I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
Anne Sexton
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