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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.

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
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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.
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... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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Today life opened inside me like an egg.
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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.
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I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
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I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
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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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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
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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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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind
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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.
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Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
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Need is not quite belief.
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Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
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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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