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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

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
Watercolors
Wash
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There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.
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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
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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.
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
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When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
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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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God is only mocked by believers.
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Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.
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stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.
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I am younger each year at the first snow.
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The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.
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I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.
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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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