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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

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
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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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Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.
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Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.
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I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
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