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sorrow is easier than guilt.
Anne Sexton
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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
Guilt
Sorrow
Easier
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There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
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Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.
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I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
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When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.
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All who love have lied.
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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
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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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Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
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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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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
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