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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

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
Without
Fields
Nurses
Like
Watches
Steering
Watch
Petals
Open
Lilies
Growing
Nurse
Yachts
Words
Slowly
Mouthful
Away
Clock
Yacht
Come
Field
Clocks

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