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Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Believe
Quite
Belief
Reality
Need
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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.
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Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
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I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
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Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.
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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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