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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
Lives
Self
Love
Acceptance

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I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.
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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
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There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
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