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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

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
Young
Sexuality
Loves
Forever
Woman

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In a dream you are never eighty.
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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
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I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
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The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
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But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.
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I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.
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I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
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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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One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is Whatever you do, don't be boring.
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I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
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Love your self's self where it lives.
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