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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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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
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I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.
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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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No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.
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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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Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.
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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions
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I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.
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I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
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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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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
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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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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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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.
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When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.
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