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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
Imagery
Images
Poet
Poetry
Without
Heart

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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
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I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.
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Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
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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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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
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I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.
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women are born twice.
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Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.
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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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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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There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
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O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
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My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.
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