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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
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Mood
Sense
Feelings
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Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.
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I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
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They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
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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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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
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I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
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When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
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Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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All who love have lied.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
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I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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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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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.
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Rats live on no evil star
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