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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Clarke
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
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Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
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Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.
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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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O starry night, This is how I want to die
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The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
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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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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
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When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.
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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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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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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
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