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Love your self's self where it lives.

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
Love
Acceptance
Lives
Self

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Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
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No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
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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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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.
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
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A woman who writes feels too much.
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I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
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You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
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My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
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I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
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The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.
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The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
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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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Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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