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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
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Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
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It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.
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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
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Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.
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My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.
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Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is Whatever you do, don't be boring.
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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
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A woman who writes feels too much.
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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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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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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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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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