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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

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 try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
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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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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.
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It is June. I am tired of being brave.
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
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