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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.

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
Boats
Blessed
Throat
Sea
Stone
Dead
Stopped
Lying
Boat
Eye
Refuse
Without
Stones
Would
Like
Shoes

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