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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

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
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Home
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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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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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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.
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Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
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I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
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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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With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
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I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
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I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
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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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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
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Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.
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You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
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She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
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