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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

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
Writer
Chance
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Fool

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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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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
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... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
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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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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.
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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
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Need is not quite belief.
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.
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There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.
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