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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
Abortion
Somebody
Gone
Born

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In a dream you are never eighty.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is the waves fold over each other they are in love with themselves sleeping in their own skin and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.
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The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.
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And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself
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Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
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I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
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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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I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
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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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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
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