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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
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Imagery
Images
Poet
Poetry
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?
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I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.
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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
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If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.
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[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
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I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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Even without wars, life is dangerous.
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Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.
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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
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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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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
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women are born twice.
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They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
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