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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.
Anne Sexton
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
Anne Sexton
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I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
Anne Sexton
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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.
Anne Sexton
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
Anne Sexton
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Anne Sexton
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
Anne Sexton
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
Anne Sexton
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
Anne Sexton
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
Anne Sexton
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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
Anne Sexton
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
Anne Sexton
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.
Anne Sexton
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
Anne Sexton
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
Anne Sexton
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She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
Anne Sexton
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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
Anne Sexton
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women are born twice.
Anne Sexton
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The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.
Anne Sexton
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
Anne Sexton
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
Anne Sexton
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The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.
Anne Sexton
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Lay not the plummet to the line religion hath no landmarks no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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