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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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It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.
Anne Sexton
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the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
Anne Sexton
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Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.
Anne Sexton
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... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
Anne Sexton
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A woman who writes feels too much.
Anne Sexton
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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.
Anne Sexton
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Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
Anne Sexton
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stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.
Anne Sexton
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Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
Anne Sexton
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
Tennessee Williams
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I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.
Anne Sexton
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
Anne Sexton
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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
Anne Sexton
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