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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

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
Life
Kitchen
Poetry
Face
Faces
Hands

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I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
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All who love have lied.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.
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[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it
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O starry night, This is how I want to die
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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
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I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
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Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.
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I am younger each year at the first snow.
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The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
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Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
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