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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

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
Sometimes
Wash
Blue
Eyes
Eye

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Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.
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I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They will knit. And the other corpse, the fractured heart, I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.
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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.
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Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
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Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?
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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
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I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
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Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...
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Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.
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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
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Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.
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