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Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Massachusetts
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Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?
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There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.
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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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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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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.
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My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.
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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
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With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.
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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
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Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
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