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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
Poet
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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The snow has quietness in it no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
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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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In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.
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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.
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
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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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We are all writing God's poem.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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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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Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.
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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.
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Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
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The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
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Even without wars, life is dangerous.
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women are born twice.
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After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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