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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

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
Born
Inspirational
Writing
Thing

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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.
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There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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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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I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.
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sorrow is easier than guilt.
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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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It would be pleasant to be drunk.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
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think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
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The joy that isn't shared dies young.
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O starry night, This is how I want to die
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