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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
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Mood
Sense
Feelings

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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.
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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
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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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Love your self's self where it lives.
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The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
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think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
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... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.
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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
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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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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
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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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