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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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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
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I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
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I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
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women are born twice.
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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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All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
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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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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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If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
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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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Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.
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Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?
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Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
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Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.
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Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
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