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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

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
Many
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Poetry
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Littles
Believe
Persons
People
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Poem

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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
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Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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Mood can be as important as sense.
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.
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Love your self's self where it lives.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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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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Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
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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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The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
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But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.
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Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!
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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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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
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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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