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Somebody who should have been born is gone.

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
Gone
Born
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Somebody

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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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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
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I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.
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I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
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Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
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