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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

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
Look
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Flutters
Need
Moth
Needs
Moths
Heart
Prayers
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Indifferent
Thousand
Prayer

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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.
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No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.
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The joy that isn't shared dies young.
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Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.
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Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.
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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.
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Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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