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Mood can be as important as sense.

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
Mood
Sense
Feelings
Important

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Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
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The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
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I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.
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The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
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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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Need is not quite belief.
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I burn the way money burns.
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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.
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I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.
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Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.
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The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.
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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
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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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I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.
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I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
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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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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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