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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.

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
Planned
Arms
Prayer
Belief
Another
Love
Undoes
Disbelief

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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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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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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
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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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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
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I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.
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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
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Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.
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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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