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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
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Thinks
Reach
Crazy
Words
Thinking
People

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When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
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You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.
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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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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
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Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
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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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I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They will knit. And the other corpse, the fractured heart, I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.
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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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