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I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

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
People
Thinks
Reach
Crazy
Words
Thinking

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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.
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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
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I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
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I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
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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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I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.
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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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Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.
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