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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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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
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Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.
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Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.
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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
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Mood can be as important as sense.
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My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.
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It would be pleasant to be drunk.
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bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.
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Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
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Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.
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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.
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you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.
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Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
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