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Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

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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Head
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Others
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Tremendously
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Sadness

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O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.
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Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
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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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The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
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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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