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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

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
Poetry
Without
Heart
Imagery
Images
Poet

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Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
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Poems aren't postcards to send home.
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Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
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The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.
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The snow has quietness in it no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
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Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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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 think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
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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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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.
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