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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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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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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.
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you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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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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All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
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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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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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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
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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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My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
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The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
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sorrow is easier than guilt.
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women are born twice.
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Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
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I burn the way money burns.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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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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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.
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