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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
Anne Sexton
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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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All who love have lied.
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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 would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.
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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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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
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... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
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Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.
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There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.
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My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
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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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Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
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When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
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I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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