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I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Love
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Rhinoceros
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Teaching
Education

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unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
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One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is Whatever you do, don't be boring.
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Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
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Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.
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I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
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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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There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
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I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
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I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.
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I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.
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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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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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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
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I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
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